NexusMods adds age verification for UK and EU users

[Ondrashek06]

https://web.archive.org/web/20250701120541/https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15319

NexusMods, a popular site for hosting video game mods, has just announced that they're adding age verification for 18+ content for users based in the UK and EU.

The specifics are currently unclear, though it is speculated that it will be an ID-based verification, raising privacy concerns among the userbase.

 

[Afeohtan]

Thankfully we have alternatives, and hopefully people will archive mods on those others sites which are anti-censorship.

 

[Sneser]

There are some alternatives, but some games rely extensively on the Nexus. Concerning.

 

[Exnor]

Nice way to harvest more information about people and sell it to a 3rd party.

 

[Ondrashek06]

Nice way to harvest more information about people and sell it to a 3rd party.

Exactly. I've always refused to use Nexus due to the mandatory account and download throttling, but the ideologically-motivated mod removals and now this only reinforced my decision.

 

[Bladexdsl]

and i thought that site couldn't possibly get any worse. the new owners are doing an outstanding job so far. I predict it will be dead within a few years

 

[tech3475]

And in unrelated news, VPN sales have increased.

 

[Moe87]

Even in the US, beware of the Congress attempt to pass KOSA could force Nexus to have same restriction for US like you saw in UK and EU.

Call your Congress and vote no on KOSA.

 

[Deleted member 706757]

I had an account on there, but since I rarely ever used it even before the ownership change I just went and deleted it. I'm only ever going to show my ID if I'm either buying booze or handling something at a government office/bank/police station, NOT because I want to look at titties.

 

[AmandaRose]

and i thought that site couldn't possibly get any worse. the new owners are doing an outstanding job so far. I predict it will be dead within a few years

Absolutely fuck all to do with the site owners it's because the UK on the 1st of July introduced new age verification laws as part of the Online Safety Act, primarily focused on protecting children from harmful content online. These laws require online platforms to implement "robust" age assurance measures, particularly for services offering age-restricted content like pornography. The goal is to prevent children from accessing content that is not suitable for their age, and platforms must demonstrate that they are doing so effectively

 

[Deleted member 753700]

Absolutely fuck all to do with the site owners it's because the UK on the 1st of July introduced new age verification laws as part of the Online Safety Act, primarily focused on protecting children from harmful content online. These laws require online platforms to implement "robust" age assurance measures, particularly for services offering age-restricted content like pornography. The goal is to prevent children from accessing content that is not suitable for their age, and platforms must demonstrate that they are doing so effectively

Definitely the call too. The rise in misogyny has been deeply concerning. Especially amongst young men. Porn is not something society ever should have normalised.

 

[Viri]

Oh boy, I can't wait to upload my ID card to a website that will probably be the victim of a "data leak" hack(in this case, again) in a few years!

No wonder the old owners sold the site off to some sucker, they seen this shit coming! I can't really blame them, as I would have done the same shit, lol.

 

[AkiraKurusu]

Definitely the call too. The rise in misogyny has been deeply concerning. Especially amongst young men. Porn is not something society ever should have normalised.

...What "misogyny"? I'm not aware of any rise in this - if you're talking about female characters being potentially "objectified" by nude mods and stuff...well, there's mods for male characters too, not to mention plenty of male shirtless scenes in movies specifically for the female gaze while the male gaze is demonised.

 

[Deleted member 753700]

...What "misogyny"? I'm not aware of any rise in this - if you're talking about female characters being potentially "objectified" by nude mods and stuff...well, there's mods for male characters too, not to mention plenty of male shirtless scenes in movies specifically for the female gaze while the male gaze is demonised.

There’s a severe rise in it. Considering you just said the male gaze is demonised when the world is run by men and about the male gaze is hilarious!

Have fun with your virtual porn bro. No woman wants someone who only sees them as an object.

 

[ChibiMofo]

Even in the US, beware of the Congress attempt to pass KOSA could force Nexus to have same restriction for US like you saw in UK and EU.

Call your Congress and vote no on KOSA.

Right. Because they are always swayed by what the [losers who actually think that contacting their congressional representative will result in change] say. Your time would be better spent getting a degree in political science so that you are completely disabused of the notion that you have any real say over what your government passes as legislation.

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Definitely the call too. The rise in misogyny has been deeply concerning. Especially amongst young men. Porn is not something society ever should have normalised.

Pornography is the result of trying to shame what is perfectly normal and acceptable to all mammals: nudity. Religion is the thing society should never, ever have normalized. Of course it is being denormalized -- by antagonists and advocates as well -- now so much that we can all look forward to a future without it and the wars/genocide that are waged by such people in the name of their mythical deities.

 

[Moe87]

ight. Because they are always swayed by what the [losers who actually think that contacting their congressional representative will result in change] say. Your time would be better spent getting a degree in political science so that you are completely disabused of the notion that you have any real say over what your government passes as legislation.

Good luck with getting voters to back you and most of them often vote for established politicians, so there are a lot of bad laws got passed and it happened all time. A lot of new politicians lost the primary election and it is harder than you think.

and nah, degree in political science isn't needed to run for the Congress and they really have no standard. If they able to pass a lot of broken laws, so it is obviously that they have no standard.

Call them to oppose the bill do work sometime, so we were able to sink the anti-piracy bill (Stop Online Piracy Act aka SOPA), also big helping from lobbyists do work as well.

Fortunately, the KOSA faced the stiff opposition from the house and unable to pass, so ended up as not becoming a law after the Congress adjourned. If introduce again, some senators have to think twice after saw the opposition in the house. Most possible would be watered down bill that only cover on privacy for children.

Also, it don't stop the states from pass their own one and they are harder to be stopped when compared to the Congress. That is going to be a lot of patchworks of state laws that is different from states to states. The federal court can try to stop that and it may be allowed by US Supreme Court.

Sorry, political system in the US is shithole, that all I have to say.

 

[Deleted member 753700]

Right. Because they are always swayed by what the [losers who actually think that contacting their congressional representative will result in change] say. Your time would be better spent getting a degree in political science so that you are completely disabused of the notion that you have any real say over what your government passes as legislation.

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Pornography is the result of trying to shame what is perfectly normal and acceptable to all mammals: nudity. Religion is the thing society should never, ever have normalized. Of course it is being denormalized -- by antagonists and advocates as well -- now so much that we can all look forward to a future without it and the wars/genocide that are waged by such people in the name of their mythical deities.

I'm talking about pornography made for the male gaze that makes women into objects and nothing more.

Take a look at the real world impact over on reddit /r/loveafterporn.

 

[SRC267]

This will definitely have a global impact