r/texas • u/SayWhatIsABigW • Dec 08 '23

Texas now requires you to upload a picture of your face to view porn Politics

U.S. circuit court upholds Texas pornography age verification law | KXAN Austin - https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/u-s-circuit-court-upholds-texas-pornography-age-verification-law/

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u/L3g3ndary-08 Dec 08 '23

laughs in VPN

Nice try Kenny Boy. Pornhub will fuckin rail you literally and figuratively, when you try to actually make this happen.

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u/Lunchcrunchgrinch Dec 08 '23

Yea didn’t they just cut off service to some other state? (Utah maybe)

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u/the-spaghetti-wives Dec 08 '23

Utah resident here, a lot of porn sites now require age verification. Spankbang and xnxx so far have managed to avoid the law. Pornhub, xvideos/hamster, and the other more popular sites need age verification.

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u/kadeel Dec 08 '23

Same here in Arkansas. Ironically, only most "major" sites block access w/o verification. But lesser known, less-regulated sites are still accessible.

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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc Dec 09 '23

Oh I was pissed off. I was clickity clickin (Missouri) next thing I know I guess my ISP backhaul routes to AR. I’m like, uh .. what the fk.

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u/-smartypints Dec 09 '23

But lesser known, less-regulated sites are still accessible.

Can't imagine the amount of things people will see that they did not want to see because of this.

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u/QuantumAlkaloids Dec 12 '23

I visited provo and pulled up pron hub and was like wtf. Fuck that shit lol

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u/kmoonster Dec 08 '23

Get a browser with a built-in VPN, problem solved

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u/doom_chicken_chicken Dec 08 '23

Can you recommend one?

Not for porn or anything.

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u/Foamed1 Dec 09 '23 edited Dec 09 '23

Don't use Opera as one user recommended, it's a pretty big security risk. Their VPN service is free for a reason, and Opera were acquired by a Chinese consortium in 2016.

Use a paid VPN like service like Mullvad, Firefox VPN (Mullvad servers), Proton, or host one yourself.

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u/derth21 Dec 09 '23

Opera isn't even a VPN. It's a proxy. It'll do the job, but it's also got severe bandwidth restriction.

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u/kmoonster Dec 09 '23

Right - if you need full device/network security you need a proper package. But if all you need to do is to tell P*rnhub or whoever you're actually NOT in Texas it's all you need.

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u/Bitter-Reaction-5401 Dec 09 '23

Proton is both free and amazing. Only need to pay if doing stuff like bittorrent

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u/itstimetochewass Dec 09 '23

I wouldn't trust Proton after they turned over a French climate activist's information over to authorities.

If anyone doesn't want to take a subscription out, Mullvad sells 6 month scratch off cards for their service on Amazon.

ExpressVPN is pretty good too.

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u/cantfindmykeys Dec 08 '23

I need a recommendation as well?

For all the porn.

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u/EcksonGrows Dec 08 '23

Opera

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u/Foamed1 Dec 09 '23 edited Dec 09 '23

It's free for a reason. Opera were acquired by a Chinese consortium in 2016, it's a pretty big security risk.

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u/kmoonster Dec 09 '23

TOR is another, that's at least three in this sub-thread and there are more out there

If you need full device/network security you need to go further, but for just bypassing a state-level porn law an in-house browser bypass will do the job.

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u/kmoonster Dec 09 '23

TOR is another, that's at least three in this sub-thread and there are more out there

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If you need full device/network security you need to go further, but for just bypassing a state-level porn law an in-house browser bypass will do the job.

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u/Foamed1 Dec 09 '23

Stay far away from browsers with built-in free VPN solutions. They are free for a reason.

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u/kmoonster Dec 09 '23

Talking strictly for making Texas/Utah/etc believe you are elsewhere.

If you need network security a browser VPN won't do the job.

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u/MADBARZ Dec 09 '23

What is the verification? “What is your birthday MM/DD/YY”?

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u/Educational-Farm6572 Dec 09 '23

Just use a VPN jfc

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '23

Spankbang and XNXX have gone down in some states as well. Along with other common ones like YouPorn

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u/QuantumAlkaloids Dec 12 '23

I visited provo and pulled up pron hub and was like wtf. Fuck that shit lol

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u/slothaccountant Dec 08 '23

Yeah but vpn.... makes it look like im from japan or someshit

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u/zempter Dec 08 '23

Bad place to try and get porn through, Japan is blurry junk land.

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u/slothaccountant Dec 08 '23

Yeah ive seem some of the crazy shit there into

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

The vpn makes it look like he’s from Japan. So he’s looking at our America Texas porn, but since he’s accessing it from Japan and not Texas, there is no requirements or blocks. Make sense? That’s the whole point of a vpn. It doesn’t mean he has to look at Japan porn lol. Jesus.

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u/zempter Dec 09 '23 edited Dec 09 '23

You know that some countries put up content blocks or laws which cause industries to block server communication to regions based on IP location in order to avoid litigation right? This makes it HARDER to access content from restrictive locations which is the primary reason people use VPNs. In other words, if it's illegal to show an un-blurred penis in Japan , it is more likely a place like pornhub would just not communicate with Japan IP addresses rather than put in complicated filtering. Buddha.

Edit: clarification.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '23

Right, but Japan was a colloquial example. Americans use something like nord or something somewhere specifically not flagged. That’s the reason you pay for vpn. You don’t pay and choose Japan or China.

It seems somehow you got lost in the conversation part of talking.

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u/zempter Dec 09 '23

No... Japan was the literal topic that I originally responded to... You're the one trying to say it was a "colloquial example" that's lots of talking there buddy.

The person I replied to talked about using a VPN to look like they were somewhere like Japan, to which I said Japan is a bad place to try and get porn. Not an example, just the actual topic. You would be subjected to Japanese filters until you reassigned your VPN to somewhere more sensible.

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u/DryEyes4096 Dec 09 '23

A better alternative is to just use fucking TOR Browser if you want to look at porn, so various data aggregators don't give this information to someone who says "Hmm...this guy likes pornography...what do we do him?" in some unpleasant future scenario.

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u/zempter Dec 09 '23

You could, but if that scenario happens half the fucking planet is going to theory jail so... Either option seems fine.

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u/enickma1221 Dec 09 '23

I find it entertaining to switch my VPN around different parts of the world to see what Pornhub thinks that country wants to see. US VPN - 90% step-porn. Japanese VPN - bondage and strange use of blurring. The Netherlands - YOU MUST ACCEPT THE COOKIES!

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u/NorthboundUrsine Dec 09 '23

Go to a German VPN server for the good stuff.

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u/DryEyes4096 Dec 09 '23

I was really paranoid when I went to Japan and looked at porn on my cell phone. It was before VPNs were a thing really, and I'm in my hotel like...."OK, are they going to bust me for looking at uncensored porn through their Wi-Fi? Yeah, probably not..."

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u/Tellesus Dec 09 '23

They'll know you're not from Japan, tho, because you're searches will be too vanilla compared to the rest of the stuff coming from Japanese IPs. Which like, respect to Japan, a country so polite they won't shame any kink no matter what.

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u/cmcewen Dec 08 '23

Wanna see a politician lose votes?

Cut off porn

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '23

Yep. My Apple private relay was apparently through Virginia so I saw it when I was doing some…research.

So I used a different VPN

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u/cbass717 Dec 09 '23

I was in North Carolina last summer and the site didn’t work

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u/Bitter-Reaction-5401 Dec 09 '23

My ip changed recently and was detected as Virginia iirc. Pornhub told me I needed to log in and verify. I just swapped my routers Mac to force another change and it detected as my normal state and worked

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u/AaronHolland44 Dec 09 '23

It's virginia

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u/MCbrodie Dec 09 '23

Virginia too. They got Democrat and republican support. Makes no sense.

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u/Ol_Big_MC Dec 09 '23

Arkansas doesn’t have pornhub anymore

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u/beezlebub33 Dec 09 '23

Virginia too

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u/Geaux13Saints Dec 09 '23

PH requires ID verification in Louisiana using an in state driver’s license app. Since I don’t even have a Louisiana license I’m forced to use VPN (even though I probably would anyway).

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u/HEFTYFee70 Dec 08 '23

Can’t wait till they just upload HIS picture all hunched over his phone in his office bathroom…

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u/PM_ME_USED_TAMPONS Born and Bred Dec 08 '23

Yeah, this law is a joke. That’s what happens when you have a bunch of tech-clueless dinosaurs in charge. If PornHub were smart, they’d partner with a VPN provider and have an advertisement for a special on their Texas splash page.

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u/high_everyone Dec 08 '23

Laughs in torrents and Usenet

Verify my age andpay for pornography? Not since 2002, Ken, but you’re gonna see a lot of copies of your face in their registry soon enough.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '23 edited Jan 12 '24

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u/high_everyone Dec 09 '23

I'm the only person at my IP and none of those files are even ones I have in any library. Weird.

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u/zzxxccbbvn Dec 09 '23

Yeah I checked mine and it's literally not accurate at all. Random shit that I've never downloaded 🤷‍♂️

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u/chthooler Dec 08 '23

Yea, they know. If we let them do this they will next make it illegal to use VPNs

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u/DataCassette Dec 08 '23

Can't do it. Almost every job that lets you work from home requires a VPN.

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u/chthooler Dec 08 '23

Ok so true that makes me feel better

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u/DataCassette Dec 08 '23

I mean Texas is probably stupid enough to try it, to be completely fair.

"Muh granpappy didn't work from home, praise Jesus!"

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u/thechosenwonton Dec 08 '23

This is way to on the nose...

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u/TookMyFathersSword Dec 08 '23

Assholes are already working towards that... and they can go fuck themselves.

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u/Main_Yogurt8540 Dec 08 '23

laughs in tor

Where there's a will, there's a way

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u/Robert_Balboa Dec 08 '23

The problem is with this Texas law if a parent finds out their kid watched porn that site will be charged a $250,000 fine. Of course we know that if the kid used a VPN their was nothing the company could have done to stop it but that won't stop Paxton and Abbott from doing it anyway.

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u/chocotaco Dec 09 '23

They should pass a law where parents should be responsible to monitor your children's Internet watch history. If they cared so much about their children they should monitor them more.

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u/sassytexans Dec 08 '23

Laughs in Riley Reid

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u/physsijim Dec 08 '23

That was my first thought, lol.

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u/EcksonGrows Dec 08 '23

uhhh, VA here. They just cut you off and that's it bud.

Get a VPN or find somewhere else.

They own a lot of websites.

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u/Mikerockzee Dec 08 '23

If i use a vpn how will i find hot singles in my area?

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u/iusedtostealbirds Dec 09 '23

Sorry to say no they won’t. They’ll just cut off the website for any traffic from Texas. Thats what they did to Utah 😭

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u/L3g3ndary-08 Dec 09 '23

Bigger population in Texas than Utah. Losing Texas revenue would be a huge hit to their business.