As everyone predicted, the UK’s dumb age verification laws are a total farce.
Designed in attempts to “protect children,” the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-age-verification-uk-changes-2026″ data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-age-verification-uk-changes-2026″>UK’s now notorious age verification laws are supposedly designed to prevent underaged users from accessing adult content. In practice, they’ve unleashed a multi-pronged privacy nightmare. Major websites like Imgur are now blocked entirely in the UK, reducing the functionality of sites like data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/reddit” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/reddit”>reddit and Steam. And furthermore, the laws aren’t even able to “protect muh kids” because…

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