@largehotcoffee@AutisticHittite It costs money and pirates don't like that. And then if one thing is "mistranslated", it's terrible. And then if it's all OK otherwise, since the site does not accept that one esoteric payment option nobody uses except the pirate "fan", an outrage. :)
@June__Lovejoy "Yea, but do you take Solana on the Tron network through a crypto tumbler? That's the only way I can support and I can only do maybe like $2."
Ever get this type of user? :)
@June__Lovejoy Been using Aegi for years. I've checked out YT tutorials for paid options and they look so cumbersome. First I've heard of Jubler though! If it works for you, rock it.
Recent tweeters born after 2002 don't recall that mosaic thickness has always been cyclical. Fantia mosaic was getting too thin, they got in trouble and reacted.
Find any mainstream JAV shot in 2017 and you'll see something similar.
Go back to the 80's and 90's and find worse.
Japanโs censorship rules are becoming absolute fucking bullshit.
I hate that my art might someday be forced to look like the image on the right, with ugly black blocks slapped everywhere ๐ญ
Also VPN "fun" fact: they all pretty much host at the same trash-tier ISPs. You're basically paying for a wrapper and praying the server is not oversold. Otherwise, it's not even a Coke and Pepsi level of difference.
Two+ years too late. None of these companies made a peep when they were going after porn sites. Now it affects their bottom line, it's suddenly an issue.
And more! A million adult sites, but only a small number of especially large VPN providers. Easy to force compliance.
ExpressVPN, @torproject, Tuta, Mozilla, @EFF and Mullvad, alongside 13 other organizations advocating for digital privacy rights, have published an open letter.
In the letter, they express serious concerns regarding the age verification measures planned for implementation across the internet following the introduction of a new child protection law.
The organizations argue that forcing users to prove their age across most websites and online services could severely undermine privacy, anonymity, and the open nature of the internet.
The central message of the letter is that protecting children should not come at the cost of jeopardizing the freedom, security, and privacy of all internet users. The signatories are calling for more balanced, privacy preserving solutions to be developed instead.
The 19 organizations that signed the letter are:
1- Big Brother Watch
2- Defend Digital Me
3- Electronic Frontier Foundation
4- ExpressVPN
5- Gamers Voice
6- Global Partners Digital
7- Index on Censorship
8- Internet Society
9- Mozilla
10- Mullvad
11- IPVanish
12- NO2ID
13- Open Rights Group
14- Privacymatters
15- Proton
16- Stop Killing Games
17- Tor Project
18- Tuta
19- VPN Trust Initiative
If Fantia soon requires some form of Ethics certification for content submitters, don't be surprised (this is about their recent mosaic thickening rule allegedly due to police pressure).
As a former host, I recommend anyone interested to check out The Great Happiness Space (it may be on YT). Dated, but still accurate.
Our clients are almost all fuzoku and they go to us because NOBODY else can really understand them.
"Therapists of the damned for the damned."
Actual coercion cases remain rare and get lots of publication. People do ๆฐดๅๅฃฒ (and by some extent, AV) because nothing else pays a respectable wage. To solve the 'problem' would require fixing wage inequality and paying younger people better, but nah, 'moral panic' is easier.
Two scout groups, Natural and Access, dominate Kabukicho. Access alone moved roughly 80,000 women into adult entertainment and pulled in about ยฅ6 billion over five years before authorities went after it.
@AWESOMEJADEN000 We've had AV for all applicable states/regions since earlier last year and traffic is UP. If a site has good branding and the AV flow is smooth (input a phone # for most users and that's it!), users will verify. VPN providers that bank on privacy are doomed if they comply.
We (adult industry) have been sounding the alarm bells about this for *years* now. All the sudden it affects a VPN provider's bottom line, they suddenly jump to our defense. I promise I didn't write this while connected to one of the shitty M247 servers all these companies use.
These politicians really need to stop thinking about other people's children. Parental controls existed for decades to solve this exact problem.
But of course they don't really care about the children, they just want your ID for every service that you use online. Its for your own good of course.
@itsfolf They should have came our side two years ago when we (adult industry) were fighting this tooth and nail. But nobody did; we went to SCOTUS on our own. It's only now that it may start affecting them do they raise a fuss. Too little too late.
What he really is saying: "Because requiring age verification would destroy our business."
The system (AV) sucks, but there are ways to keep the provider from knowing the user beyond their age. NO LAW requires *only* ID/face scans for starters.
https://t.co/TI1Rk2PZD2
@UnseenJapanSite From someone who actually works with the studios, the basic gist from them all is "the law sucks, but we can make it work." Case in point: comparing monthly output of most any studio including small ones before/after law shows no change in monthly output.
@itsfolf Per Proton, it's important to question what a for profit enterprise has to gain/lose by regulations.
We (adult site) started using AV last year and zero drop in metrics of note. Proton has a problem though: they don't really offer anything millions of rivals don't also offer.
@itsfolf The best thing is just to have a "enable filtering for kids?" type of prompt when one starts up a new computer/phone for the first time, but sadly, the world has collective amnesia about the existence of filtering software so here we are.
+ any article that includes a pic of a tech bro looking smug sitting on a comfy sofa/beanbag smelling his own farts while (most likely) talking to an attractive woman can be best ignored. I didn't and lost 5 minutes. Don't be like me.