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Pornhub Curbs Access in Australia as New Age‑Verification Rules Take Effect

Regulators are enforcing age checks with penalties of up to AU$49.5 million per breach.

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Australians will need to verify their age in order to access adult content on a range of places across the internet, with pornography sites and other sites hosting adult content required to have age assurance in place from today. Pornhub

Overview

  • The eSafety Commissioner says Aylo will apply age verification to paid, age‑restricted services and limit free offerings to safe‑for‑work content in Australia.
  • Pornhub is showing only non‑explicit homepages to Australian users who are not logged in, and new Australian account registrations have been halted.
  • Phase‑2 online safety codes require robust age assurance for pornography and other restricted material using tools such as facial age estimation, digital identity wallets or photo ID.
  • Australian downloads of VPN apps jumped sharply after the restrictions, with VPN Super Unlimited Proxy rising to third on the App Store and Proton VPN and NordVPN leaping into the top 20.
  • Officials warn VPN usage can be detected and does not remove the requirement to verify age, as the government frames the rules as protections comparable to offline age limits.