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by melevittfl 140 days ago
I don't understand what "VPN providers move onto VPS to avoid" means? Can you clarify?

I can't see how they could apply it to VPS providers without meaning AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean, etc would all start having to do age verification checks. Can't imagine here would not be a massive push back against that.
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chrisjj 140 days ago
I meant VPN providers offer VPS as a substitute.

I think they would include AWS and the pushback would be ineffective. Many AWS users could be immediately age-verified by existing payment card info.

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melevittfl 139 days ago
By VPS, I mean a generic compute instance that can run whatever you want. Like a Linux instance. I'm not sure what you mean by "VPN providers offer VPS as a substitute" in that context.

Paying by card isn't enough to verify age. They'd have to specifically verify via passport or other ID.

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chrisjj 138 days ago
> Paying by card isn't enough to verify age.

It is in UK.

Ofcom, the media regulator, has set out a number of ways websites can verify the age of users, external, including through credit card checks ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

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