
Pornhub, the world's largest adult website, has reopened after withdrawing from the Australian market eight months ago. It is currently only available to adult users who have completed age verification on Apple devices.
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Pornhub withdrew from the market in March this year due to Australia's tightening of age verification rules for adult content. The new law requires users to prove they are over 18 years old before viewing adult content.
Australian veteran drivers who want to watch adult films now have to prove that they are over 18 years old. Pornhub, the world's largest adult website, has reopened after withdrawing from the Australian market eight months ago. However, it is currently only available to adult users who have completed age verification on Apple devices. Devices using other systems such as Android are currently unable to use the same adult services.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Pornhub parent company Aylo announced on the 6th that eligible Australian adult users can resume using the service, provided they are first confirmed to be of age through the age verification program launched by Apple in Australia. Aylo said that the age verification method recently launched by Apple is in line with the device-side verification model that the company has long advocated.
Pornhub withdrew from the market in March this year due to Australia's tightening of age verification rules for adult content. The new law requires users to prove that they are over 18 years old before they can browse adult content, restricted video games, and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots with sexual content. Platforms that violate regulations may be punished.
Pornhub said at the time that requiring users to prove their age would not effectively protect children and might instead raise concerns about personal data privacy. Critics also worry that verification methods such as facial recognition, digital identity and credit card may create privacy issues, and users may also try to avoid age verification.
Android users are still unable to watch movies
Apple recently launched a new age verification mechanism in Australia. The child safety feature is enabled by default on the device. Only after the user is confirmed to be an adult will the normal adult experience be provided. Australian Apple users can prove they are over 18 with a credit card, passport, driver's license or government-issued ID. This mechanism is currently limited to Apple devices. Adult users of Android and other non-Apple systems have not yet been included in the scope of this opening.
Alex Kekesi, vice president of brand and community at Aylo, said the company has argued for many years that device-side age verification can prevent minors from being exposed to age-inappropriate content and reduce the need for adults to repeatedly provide personal data to different websites and apps.
Kekesi pointed out that having child safety features preset on the device also means that adults do not have to hand over unnecessary personal information to multiple apps and websites. Aylo also stated that device-side age verification will also reduce the effectiveness of VPNs in circumventing related verification mechanisms. VPNs are often used to allow websites to determine that the user is located in another country, thereby obtaining region-restricted content.

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