Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

You can attack me ad hominum all you want that only degrades your lame arguments.

I have some numbers known to me and the costs.

If I have to pay a VISA NET validation charge through a processor -- a new UK visitor is likely not worth the cost or is now a marginal segment.

You notice no payment processor has joined this conversation.

Mindgeek can do what they want. They are probably not taking any position as there is no real position at this time to take at this time. Tubes make money selling their traffic. If large tube operators have to pay to age verify any segment of traffic they may very well abandon that traffic segment as unprofitable.

Under the schema I proposed -- a JSON Verification API the UK government's *regulator* (whatever the fuck that is) would have maybe 3 million requests to deal with each day. That is going to cost someone a lot of money -- and it won't be me.

The other question is how you maintain state with the age verified status of a visitor? With a cookie, that is the easiest way but is maybe only 70% dependable. As browsers delete cookies -- you would have to revalidate -- and someone will have to bear that cost.

It is not cost efficient to set up a data base for visitors that are not logged in. Browser fingerprinting for identification might be only 85% accurate anyway.

You carry on with your unicorns and rainbows ... Your White Knight is on its way ...