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Most VPN companies won't implement age verification, because their purpose is privacy. This is really an attempt to ban VPNs. This won't be popular when 70% of the population uses VPNs.


> when 70% of the population uses VPNs.

To be honest, unfortunately, I'm not really sure about this one.


Me neither.

I would suspect maybe <1% of the population uses VPNs. At least outside of work environments and connecting to intranets.


A large chunk of them is from China :p


> Most VPN companies won't implement age verification, because their purpose is privacy.

They will when it's law. Their purpose is most likely either snake oil, or bypassing geo restricctions on netflix or sports.


Most VPN providers are purely profit-driven enterprises, they don't give a shit about privacy. There are only a handful that would turn away UK business instead of requiring ID.




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