UK's Age Verification Laws Drive Non-Compliant Sites and Increase Unverified Visits
TL;DR
The UK’s enforcement of the Online Safety Act’s age verification rules is paradoxically reducing traffic on compliant adult sites while increasing it on non-compliant ones, highlighting unintended consequences of the law.
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