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Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima (www.pcgamer.com)

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The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

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[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago

I know this is a bit different. I'm in the UK and there's a few sites I use which can't implement the age verification due to being a small team so they've straight up banned all UK traffic.

VPN to another EU location seems to work. I'm actually surprised it was that easy. It also works on a bunch of sites I wish not to have an account. Not all, but most.

The politicians who passed this are either clueless morons or are using this to push some other agenda (no idea what).