Login/auth blocks 2

As >>39406 reached the bump limit, here's the second. Likewise, this is about login/auth blocks on social media widely affecting the internet, as well as NSFW content. Both of these had clearly lead straight to the internet as a whole becoming more locked down and nonfunctional, making scrapers impossible to extract files, people to view stuff they like, etc. I have researched as many sources as possible over the course of the original thread.

>>44005 >"the underfell blog was made private like that by the creators for archival purposes due to drama" Well, I believe it wasn't made private; the Tumblr blog was hidden under a password as indicated by the blog_auth string in the URL's address. Sometimes Tumblr blogs can end up on a login-required or blog_auth string in a URL address like the posts I've previously addressed. As for the ever-growing list, only a couple of sites had been capable of login/auth blocks in comparison to those affecting or banning NSFW content, like Newgrounds, Tumblr and Gumroad (the latter of which was from a Mastodon post). GitHub's gallery-dl repo had problems with scraping NSFW content because of the blocks/bans on the fly. So when I meant "there needs to be a way to curb this without auth" I'm looking at the fact you could browse/scrape freely like in the 2000's when login/auth blocks weren't invented until early 2018 with Tumblr's problematic Safe Mode. >"a digital rights nightmare" >"everyone would fight against it" That's a lot the thread had taken in, since I (the OP of this thread) had researched a LOT of these like it's of significant importance. >4ch has an age consent popup old.reddit.com and e621.net have similar age consent popups/pages as far as we've seen.

https://lainchan.org/r/res/44060.html I had tiny issues with Cloudflare, as I had addressed in >>43944 and these are security checks. However, somebody made a thread on this as of recent. Anyways, here is a list of login/auth blocks issues that can help: Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ (this is the only one I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store) Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (NSFW-blocked) Tumblr: -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023 (one of these examples can be found in post >>40581). This leads me to ask a hard question to everyone - did this thwart the ban in 5 years?

>>44082 I had been looking into YCombonator all about the login/auth blocks as well like these examples here: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18606593 -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674070 -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26299561 -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37330234 -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30256984 -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39721870

As sage wrote, "Although my examples contain alot of content of the sexual nature, these kinds of login walls are used even for the most benign of things like just accessing a website, the measure shouldn't be a thing in the first place. This is not an acceptable tradeoff, as there is literally no reason to make an account for anything." https://www.pcmag.com/news/tumblr-explains-why-it-still-bans-porn-blame-credit-card-companies-apple At the very least, this thread (and the previous) cracks down on arbitrarily login blocks for social media and NSFW age-gates, but I want the internet to be fully accessible like in 2000's when there was no login/auth blocks, in my personal opinion. If you have other opinions on this issue then please let me know. I'm bumping this thread because it's very important.

>>44025 >Well, I believe it wasn't made private; the Tumblr blog was hidden under a password as indicated by the blog_auth string in the URL's address. yes, that's what I mean by private. >Sometimes Tumblr blogs can end up on a login-required or blog_auth string in a URL address like the posts I've previously addressed. this is something else users can do. I'm not sure if you're being deliberately aloof, or actually not getting it. either way, it is a bit concerning.

>>44142 >I'm not sure if you're being deliberately aloof, or actually not getting it. I'm actually giving users like you as much information as much as I can, the topic at hand here raises concerns for the internet's future. >That's what I mean by private (regarding certain Tumblr blogs) I don't mind if we say it's private or hidden via Tumblr, it really doesn't matter which. Going into a tangent, some itch.io games can be hidden under a password or put on private, something I've seen in 2022 but it's like how Tumblr users manage their blogs pretty much. Thank you very much for keeping me updated ;)

>>44143 I just need to know, and I'm sorry for getting political about this. do you think it's wrong that users can do this?

>>44144 You don't need to apologise. As for your question, it's either right or wrong if users need to put their Tumblr accounts/YouTube videos/itch.io games on private. One such example that lingered in my head was SomeOrdinaryGamers putting all his old Haunted Gaming video series private in 2017 because creepypastas "were becoming stale". While I had connected this with the state of creepypastas in general, I believed it was a Luna Game video I was going to watch in 2012 that caused all this, wanting to make SomeOrdinaryGamers unprivatize his old videos. The only threads that point to Steam's "login-based" agecheck problem: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=steam+%22must+login+to+see+this+content%22+site:steamcommunity.com&sca_esv=6c62cb884638f89e&filter=0&biw=1366&bih=657&dpr=1 Full nudity in Steam Store: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1735465524722059421/?ctp=3 So many NSFW games on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/2823131222991189575/ This "login to view" variant of Steam's agecheck is hell and a lot of users have had trouble finding some games that have been flagged. If you want to know, this is where I drove the issue that the internet's dying thanks to login/auth blocks like these. This is terrible.

Please note that I still need answers on getting rid of login/auth blocks for social media and NSFW content because it's completely wrong if people can't access and/or archive media in the long run. The list I've organised (post >>44082) can help, as I had researched a LOT of these as if it was of significant importance (and still is as of now). As for the ever-growing list, only a couple of sites had been capable of login/auth blocks in comparison to those affecting or banning NSFW content.

>>44189 I had found a couple of GitHub links if you guys are interested: - https://github.com/Qwaxi-Lixard/yes-porn-allowed - https://github.com/Qwaxi-Lixard/no-porn-allowed Both of these are lists of different sites and services that differ between banning their usage in affiliation to adult content or not. It's important to not that each site, service, platform, or business may have different limits. In my opinion, Tumblr is supposed to be in the Yes NSFW Allowed list, since I said "Should be allowed; this was (and still is) one of the prime examples of banning porn and such content IS supposed to come back", not the latter because, as I had stated previously, February 2018's Safe Mode function was the reason behind the NSFW content blocks and bans. This is the same thing with opinion on Gumroad stating it "should be allowed". Another thing the one of the lists covered is Steam, via post >>44147 - "Content must be appropriately labeled and age-gated." As I stated, it should be "content must be appropriately labeled", as age-gates have become terrible in recent times. Newgrounds has no references to age-gates for A-rated content on that list, but says "Allowed, if marked". The future of internet accessiblity is uncertain, since I want things to be reversed. Also I found a funny bug on Tumblr via reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1hjvs70/tumblr_misbehaving/

https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20220105171207/20220106023308/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/media-policy Twitter imposing restrictions on specific sensitive media, such as adult content (for viewers who are under 18 or viewers who do not include a birth date on their profile) and slapping a "Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old. To view this media, you’ll need to log in to Twitter" tombstone on some NSFW posts had always been a wrong move for guests attempting to view NSFW media. Same thing with Tumblr and Newgrounds, but it's not age, but policy changes so that people can't scrape anything. These tombstones should've been reverted back to their normal "may contain sensitive content; view settings" ones. Do you have any opinions on all of this while this is still going on?

Bumping again since it's important; I know I've haven't been updating this thread in a while. If you have any opinions on tackling login/auth blocks on social media (as well as NSFW content) widely affecting the internet, let me know.

>>44276 don't you think it might be easier to maintain this as like, a neocities page instead of a thread on lainchan? that way it can't be deleted and you won't have to deal with the imageboard format.

>>44278 Well, I had been maintaining this on multiple text documents and a recent list I made using Microsoft Word, inspired by Qwaxi-Lixard's lists (as mentioned in post >>44204), and I've been archiving posts on a huge text document. I'm pretty glad that Wayback Machine helps archive a lot of content on here like it has done in the past (eg. NSFW Tumblr blogs before 2018 made them not accessible). Thank you for asking me, though!

>>44349 so is there a reason why you need this thread?

>>44353 Yep. Moving on, I found this: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/discussions/11260 I fear it's one of those login/auth blocks affecting sites, it's upsetting I don't use Piped to watch videos nowadays. A GitHub repo reached out to everyone, saying that "In July, YouTube has started to A/B test the requirement of an anti-bot check on streaming URLs from its HTML5 clients (desktop, mobile and TV websites leading up to a 'sign to confirm that you're not a bot error'), a pot URL query parameter, which leads to invalid responses (HTTP response code 403) after some time, like on the Android app if you do not pass integrity checks (this happened a few times to NewPipe and reVanced which works around the issue). This anti-bot check is hard to implement and requires a full browser environment. [/i] [i]"YouTube started to require the parameter which was before responsible of throttling streaming URLs (n query parameter of streaming URLs) if you do no pass the correct value, computed by the YouTube's JavaScript player. This requirement leads so now to 403 HTTP responses too. [/i] [i]"Since 2nd week of July 2024, YouTube has started to roll out a new JavaScript player which changes how this function can be extracted. The function to return the correct value cannot be extracted currently by the extractor, leading to instant 403 HTTP responses; which had been fixed in the 0.27.1 release." Someone on TeamPiped's GitHub repo did not think this was an IP blacklist issue as they tried using multiple different IPv6 and IPv4 addresses for one of those instance; after successfully watching one or two videos, the issue kept coming back. They thought YouTube has a new way to verify actual clients/detect "bots" - this is backed up by the fact that people having this issue while using NewPipe, are not having this issue when they visit the actual YouTube website and try to watch the same video. NewPipe fixed the bot error, but I want Piped to do the same because I tested a video from the piped.kavin.rocks instance as of yesterday. However, GitHub repos kept limiting issues around this to collaborators. From what I know so far, Piped and Invidious are still suffering from the bot error no matter how many people got affected.

Looking at the links on my previous thread, I found that part of the hyperlink just cuts off. This is when you don't pop the https in the link: old.reddit.com/over18?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FClopClop%2Fcomments%2F13bo02%2Fhoof_beat_2_coming_soon%2Fc72pn6i But if you add https in the url this happens: https://old.reddit.com/over18?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FClopClop%2Fcomments%2F13bo02%2Fhoof_beat_2_coming_soon%2Fc72pn6i Another thing I came up with comes from this: http://web.archive.org/web/20160821151645/http://mylittledoxy.tumblr.com/post/147675005926/n0nd3scr1pt-mylittledoxy-im-removing-all Take note at Doxy screaming out >"Tumblr is not for us anymore, it’s for them" in the post. I thought this is what Tumblr's like nowadays because NSFW content was blocked then derezzed in 2018, while tag searches and anon asks were blocked for guest view, which had been a total downfall. Doxy kind of opened up a can of worms with just that exact phrase, "Tumblr is not for us anymore, it’s for them" back in 2016, making me relate to the state of Tumblr's downfall from 2017-present (Safe Mode, NSFW ban, login walls, login to ask anonymously) in such a simple echo. This seems to be like the perspective on Gaza being in a barren warzone now than the lush landscapes that it used to be. Other quotes I found were: >"It’s really depressing" - gears towards how site changes had a negative impact >"scary-sounding" - could've linked to the 'net, but this is, again, all to do with site changes >"This is the short and long of it." - the research I've been dealing with in 2024 to the present year What are your thoughts on this? Anyways, I really wish for social media to not put up a login wall or block NSFW material. Even Google tries to change my SafeSearch settings on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A but I'd prefer it if the SafeSearch settings were completely disabled. >"completely disabled" Blocking access to sites/content just goes to show me the internet is crumbling, making me wish that login/auth walls and NSFW banning should be completely disabled. And I can't deal with that very well, since it's just change...

>>44383 >links on my previous thread >I found that part of the hyperlink just cuts off That's weird the link fixed itself

>>44383 In case you didn't know, Doxy was mentioned in this entire report list: https://web.archive.org/web/20151002224425/http://noponyofnote.tumblr.com/post/34428001389/terms-and-conditions They said a sideblog was removed due to "false claims by Tumblr staff" and another Tumblr user made fanart of it, stating it's old (it's just a snippet for rule compliance!). Also going twofold with this message because you are awesome

Had anyone been using 4k Video Downloader to the point where they got this "Error: failed to download" message? YouTube just raised the restrictions on nearly every downloader online, and blocks downloads to your IP after you download lots of videos. I don't care if people watch YouTube or not, I was ok with the site until Google came and messed it all up, over ad content, Premium subscriptions, etc. Clearly Google ruined YouTube; I don't want YouTube to be overridden with ads before videos or even issuing an IP ban on 4k Video Downloader. In fact, ads before videos is the reason Google ruined YouTube for ever, and I want it to be back to the pre-2011 era. I just cannot take this anymore with the site.

>>44447 Sources: https://old.reddit.com/r/4kdownloadapps/comments/1dz3dhl/just_updated_to_43110092_and_the_4k_downloader/ https://old.reddit.com/r/4kdownloadapps/comments/1hrojxc/i_cant_be_the_only_one_having_this_problem_right/

>>44147 This is yet about Steam's NSFW age-gate problems again, this time it's from the Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199124986209/screenshots/?appid=250900#scrollTop=0 I want things like this accessible in the long run like I've documented without the need for logins/DOB, and one of their images comes from a NSFW-blocked TBoI mod on Steam Workshop. A few things of note are the image is marked as spoilers but is public. You can see this for yourself: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tboi+18%2B+steam&sca_esv=a80202f809587add&ei=0a_ZZ4jnB9DBhbIPu6eZuQw&ved=0ahUKEwjIk4OYlpSMAxXQYEEAHbtTJscQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tboi+18%2B+steam&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiDnRib2kgMTgrIHN0ZWFtSMJ9UNwBWNN6cAF4AZABAJgBjQKgAb4OqgEFNS44LjK4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgagAu4EwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICBhAAGBYYHsICCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYogTCAgUQABjvBZgDAIgGAZAGCJIHAzEuNaAHwCOyBwMwLjW4B9oE&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Even bluesky isn't showing things like https://bsky.app/profile/succulentscum.bsky.social/post/3lcyst6l4zc27 with stuff like "Adult Content; Labelled by the author. Learn more" and is UNVIEWABLE WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT

>>44479 https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation >!no-unauthenticated which makes the content inaccessible to logged-out users in applications which respect the label >porn which puts a warning on images and can only be clicked through if the user is 18+ and has enabled adult content More like !no-unauthenticated and porn labelled content being inaccessible to logged-out users in applications should DISrespect their labels !hide puts a generic warning on content that cannot be clicked through, and filters the content from listings which is like kicking dead whales down the beach because I want stuff like that link in the previous post 100% accessible by all means; !hide, !no-unauthenticated and >porn should ALL be accessable WITHOUT login credentials

>>44480 Has anybody come across posts on BlueSky that had been labeled? I found this link (https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation) and while it has mod codes, the only ones that stick out like sore thumbs are !no-unauthenticated porn !hide Two of these pops an unclickable generic warning on content that redirects to what they mean, especially with posts tagged as porn if somebody put in their D.O.B. in their login credentials (like Twitter). The !no-unauthenticated tag is similar to porn because it's inaccessible to logged-out users. These aren't generic labels, but really awful. I wish for them to make some of the posts 100% accessible to people without the need of logins and D.O.B.'s. I've now added it to my growing list of login/auth blocks issues. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ (this is the only one I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store) Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (NSFW-blocked) Tumblr: -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts) https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

I'm bumping this thread again as usual, but I also want people to talk to me about the list I've addressed in the previous post as it's of importance.

>>44357 This bot issue affected invidious: http://web.archive.org/web/20240612043331/https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734 YouTube putting in bot checks on piped is 100% unnecessary

artslush.tumblr.com gave me a message about the blog having mature content when I know it's for NSFW content (like saunterwing.tumblr.com and saunterwing.tumblr.com/post/179982627842/ if the descrpition is of any indication)

>>44683 Normally Tumblr blogs having mature content is to do with NSFW/adult content in general but artslush.tumblr.com was marked as a mature content blog because of gore and body horror? Or this is because it's an old blog somebody doesn't use anymore (at least) and they kept it like this? I'm puzzled because I do not know what happened to a couple of NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023 (with one mentioned in my previous post). I really don't know about how artslush's blog got a mature flag, can anyone help me about this situation? soya beans

>>44621 https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/3658#issuecomment-2286484613 Most of the instances are currently unavailable due to this issue, a user said, stating that I want to mention that I don't think this is an IP blacklist issue, I tried using multiple different IPv6 and IPv4 addresses for my instance, after successfully watching one or two videos, the issue comes back again, I think youtube has a new way to verify actual clients/detect "bots", this is backed up by the fact that people having this issue while using NewPipe, are not having this issue when they visit the actual youtube website and try to watch the same video. This is happening to me on the majority of videos (~8 out of 10) and on different instances, to the point another user had to go back to using vanilla youtube. http://web.archive.org/web/20240612043331/https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734 Any thread that mentions YouTube's bot-checking error on github I came across was "locked as spam and limited conversation to collaborators", like keeping an issue clean from unnecessary comments, leading to too much chaos, and I mean, TOO MUCH. This needs to stop, YouTube needs to step down from bot checks for ever, sorry

>>44480 Found an example of the !no-unauthenticated label: https://bsky.app/profile/sassy0m3g4.bsky.social/post/3lmdf6ccwr22q Also I found this on github: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/2015 It's similar to https://github.com/TumblThreeApp/TumblThree/issues/221

I found out that Nitter made a return! https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/discussions/1212 zedeus merged the authentication replacement PR after a bunch of fixes and updates, so there's no longer a need to use a different branch or one of the many forks floating around. However, NSFW/sensitive content accounts aren't showing their tweets, only people or something: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1218

Remember that I want login/auth blocks on social media widely affecting the internet, as well as NSFW content, gone from the internet for ever, this is why I'm bumping again as per usual. Happy Easter everyone

I want to bump up this thread. this is important please

>>44725 >>44213 Reminder that I want NSFW/sensitive content accounts to be 100% accessible on Nitter/xcancel. Here are a couple of links: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/829 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/discussions/1212 https://github.com/PrivacyDevel/nitter/issues/26 The latter is from StevenNL2000, who says "the problem Nitter is currently facing with NSFW content is that you can only fetch it with authenticated requests, which are rate-limited. However, some of the rate limit is currently being wasted on requests that don't contain any NSFW content at all. "My proposal is to always fetch as a guest first, and only retry with authentication if there was NSFW content in the first response. The idea is that since guest requests are essentially free, the rate limit will be used up less quickly and instances will hopefully become more usable." For me, the rate-limits and countries are not a problem, but companies themselves trying to keep us away from archiving NSFW content. e621.net spoke about Twitter/X slowly blocking guests from viewing (and scraping) NSFW tweets: https://e621.net/forum_topics/32720 And I was checking any instance of somebody making an announcement that was making their move from Tumblr to Twitter because of the NSFW ban on the former via furbooru.org (I know I had problems with them via http://web.archive.org/web/20240314094426/https://lainchan.org/r/res/36744.html but like e621.net, they scrape and archive images that affected by NSFW content blocks and bans).

soykaf makes it impossible to use the web on a headless browser. would be much easier to get by on a 500mb p/m plan

>>45894 actually lainchan is one of the very few places that I can actually post using elinks. most sites with forms and such use javascript. which doesnt realistically work on a headless browser.

>>45895 Okay what do you mean by headless browser?

>>45891 >"I was checking any instance of somebody making an announcement that was making their move from Tumblr to Twitter because of the NSFW ban on the former via furbooru.org" Okay, furbooru.org/images/20241 had the description >"two days left until Tumblr doesn't allow NSFW content anymore, follow me on twitter if you want to see future pics from me" which was a HUGE lead into Tumblr's downfall IMO because while the image in question was scraped by furbooru.org in 2020, the description is important. >"Tumblr doesn't allow NSFW content anymore" No, Tumblr SHOULD allow NSFW content, but blocks and bans affecting them is wholly wrong, in my personal opinion. >>44383 >>44683 I feel like part of saunterwing.tumblr.com/post/179982627842/'s description is what Tumblr's like nowadays because NSFW content was blocked then derezzed in 2018, and that post came out a month before. Take care :)

>>45906 I forgot about the NSFW content warning for the furbooru.org link I've attached in the previous post, and that was a portion of the description used here. Hopefully this will clear up a few things! Also, some links I found on Google: https://old.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/a346wl/list_of_67k_nsfw_tumblrs_submitted_to_reddit_in/ https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/a3kdon/43k_tumblrs_w_nsfw_content_posted_to_reddit_live/ https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3AGithub.com+nsfw+login+authtoken&sca_esv=db94c43514cdc207&biw=1366&bih=600&ei=QBQjaJa7Cs-uhbIPq_mHSQ&ved=0ahUKEwiW24CelKCNAxVPV0EAHav8IQk4PBDh1QMIEA&uact=5&oq=site%3AGithub.com+nsfw+login+authtoken&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJHNpdGU6R2l0aHViLmNvbSBuc2Z3IGxvZ2luIGF1dGh0b2tlbkjPA1AAWABwAXgAkAEAmAEAoAEAqgEAuAEDyAEAmAIAoAIAmAMAiAYBkgcAoAcAsgcAuAcA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp journals.sagepub.com says Tumblr's ban on NSFW content had sparked "contested platform governance", however Google had opened up a whole smorgasbord of links if you pop "site:Github.com nsfw login authtoken" into it's search bar. But clearly I want content to be accessible without the need of logins, D.O.B.s and authTokens like I've seen in the past. Not even a ban could impact the needs of archiving content.

>>44721 https://bsky.app/profile/eggnog-art.bsky.social/post/3lntaovdiwc25 said it got "labelled by @moderation.bsky.app". That's ominous but it led me to https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ar7c4by46qjdydhdevvrndac which has labels and posts. Some of the labels can be toggled, but these have a greyed out Hide button: Adult Content Explicit sexual images. Adult content is disabled. Sexually Suggestive Does not include nudity. Adult content is disabled. Non-sexual Nudity E.g. artistic nudes. Configured in moderation settings. Sexually Suggestive (Cartoon) Art with explicit or suggestive sexual themes, including provocative imagery or partial nudity. Adult content is disabled. Graphic Media Explicit or potentially disturbing media. Adult content is disabled. I'm sorry - but what the heck is going on with Bluesky? First off, I've seen this adult content being disabled for guests in the long run, but posts labelled as "non-sexual nudity" can be configured in moderation settings when it led me to a login redirect?! All of them should be configured in moderation settings. Two, anything marked as graphic media (like gore) isn't adult content. Adult content is exactly what it says on the tin, but graphic media should've had the toggle bar because that's 12+ content. Bluesky can't make up their minds with this.

Bumping as always because its important

>>43912 I saw some games on itch.io asked for my age consents when they aren't NSFW and are horror-based games. Why is that even possible?

>>44683 >>46117 Both of these posts show gore/violence treated as NSFW when this is actually aimed at adult content. I want stuff unblocked because it's ruining people wanting it to be viewable without any restrictions, in general. I want it to be possible in the future, and speaking of which, this is not just about my wish, but something that had impacted people viewing NSFW content on such an extreme scale.

Okay, LMJ updated her Beast mod, if you want to know more it's all there in the link: https://old.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/1lfdoro/bestia_20_not_just_announcing_it_it_just_dropped/ But it's still blocked by Steam content warnings, which should never be implemented on the site because when I checked Steam Workshop, it's not present anywhere. This is why Steam needs to reconsider its age-checks for ANYTHING.

>>46268 government laws force steam to censor what you can view. They also had to delete regional pricing because eu sued them over it demanding equalized pricing in eurozone.

>>46277 >"Government laws force Steam to censor what you can view" When I checked Steam Workshop because LMJ updated her Beast mod, I saw it not being present anywhere. The mod in question wasn't blocked in the first place to even begin with. I saw it within the second page of the "most popular" mods in 2022; back then that mod could be downloaded, but who am I kidding? Blame the goverment for letting censorship HURT a prime example. Intrestingly, LMJ explained that there was an argument between her and Snowy_Roads (aka Atreue) after they wanted to buy the character from her, offering LMJ $4000 but she declined. Weeks later, LMJ gave Snowy_Roads the mod character and all of the files I had for the mod, including the mod files themselves for The Binding of Isaac. Snowy_Roads started DMing LMJ's IRL friends somehow and telling them that she didn't send them the "Animation Files". Still to this very day, Snowy_Roads kept pulling emotional manipulation and lie nonsense when LMJ is somehow still being nice to them. That's very interesting but, why go though the haggling when it's affected by the goverment?

>>46280 LMJ added the original variant of her Beast mod on Steam (the one that Snowy_Roads had bought before the argument) - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3508002325 She said: >"No future changes will be made to this mod. This is purely for people who wanted the original version." >"Contains no edits other than my sprite work." Best of all, the mod in question isn't affected by content warnings. Just realised an error: >all of the files I had for the mod Sorry, I meant "all of the files she had for the mod" >>46277 I did not realise Steam had regional pricing. But itch.io has regional pricing for some games and assets.

>>46288 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3507995337 MOverERR reuploaded the Dead God replacement sprites, saying that "this is a reupload after the recent Steam ban". However, their screenshots still say 4 on their profile while it shows three of them because they privatized the preview for the very same Dead God replacement sprite (when you obtain it). I have a question. Why was the mod flagged for NSFW content on Steam and then derezzed for that reason?

>>45981 Thanks. COPPA compliance is required by law. I don't want to, but have to age gate some of my Auth locked content. Legal remedy to the problem is to attempt repeal. BBSes had lock by credit card required [$0.01 credit then deposit].

>>46292 >age-gate some auth-locked content That's a terrible thought. Even though I found some examples from one account today I still can't shrug off this feeling Bluesky had got to sort out their labelling problem. -https://bsky.app/profile/daimera.bsky.social/post/3lsii6gp3622e (graphic media as marked by the author) -https://bsky.app/profile/daimera.bsky.social/post/3ltaar2x6fs2m (blocked with sign-in required, as labelled by the same person) The former (which can be viewed on artslush/godslush via Tumbig) should've been "graphic media can be toggled on or off because that content is geared towards teens to infinity". Some of the labels can be toggled. Graphic media, when it comes to gore however, should have had the toggle switch in the first place.

>>46288 >[LMJ's original variant of her Beast mod] in question isn't affected by content warnings Now the mod's affected by content warnings and isn't visible on most recent, only MOverERR's reupload of the Dead God replacement sprites and I am so angry with Steam to flag BOTH of LMJ's Beast mods and not make it accessible to anybody. This is Steam's fault to take it away from people and is 100% wrong. Just look at the link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3508002325

And I found this Steam user uploaded screenshots of NSFW-blocked games (especially the ones with a pink frame): https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198150438297/screenshots#scrollTop=0 WTH is going on?!

>>46385 Like, what even is the game being used here that's age-restricted? Does anyone know?

Bumping as usual because this is very important stuff. I've haven't been active for a while so...

>>44024 the solution in my opinion is to boycott the services that require authentication, and use and promote the services that are free as in freedom.

>>46432 boycotts are effective when you have a lot of people doing it. We don't. Its not a boycott its an eccentricity.

>>46432 >>46433 How would that be possible though?

>>46433 i'd wager there are enough people unwilling/unable to authenticate that they'd second guess themselves if people made an organized commitment not to use their service. remember that our data is valuable enough to be a bargaining chip. if theres not a big enough group to sway them, then no matter, still dont use their services. keep your own freedom even if it makes life harder, that way, non authenticating sites still will have the patronage to keep on

Here is my list of login/auth blocks issues. Most of these are aimed at NSFW content. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ (this is the only one I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store) Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (NSFW-blocked) Tumblr: -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts) https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

Someone on Newgrounds uploaded a TBoI Steam Workshop mod that had been flagged as NSFW: - https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/vitati/all-tarot-cards-22 - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3494776356 Worse, the account in question uploaded A-rated art that's still blocked by age-gates when Newgrounds and Steam did not even need to block NSFW material from guest access. I don't care how many times we've seen it now, I want it gone for people to archive that sort of content. No accounts. Nothing.

>>46597 Do you think the world will really become a much worse place if a bunch of tboi smut gets lost to history? It's not even that well drawn

>>46598 >"Do you think the world will really become a much worse place if a bunch of NSFW material gets lost to history?" Not lost to history, but lost to age-gating methods, which many people HATE to see. I had addressed that Steam, Newgrounds, Pixiv, and other sites are blocking guests from viewing or even archiving NSFW content. And sites like Facebook and Twitter even blocks guests from browsing. Another thing I want to bring up is that "delaying(?) could allow more and more login blocks to increase in number until they are justly dealt with, especially when it comes to archiving pornography and accessing sites; something I've effectively addressed. Sites who censor guest activity ought to face some sort of consequences as well for enabling this situation to continue." It's from https://archive.is/Td5NY#selection-591.0-591.724 (I'm not that person to be honest), but do you see the allusion to censorship and login blocks? Also, I don't care if images are drawn to some standards if anything; I'm wanting things like this archived in the long run because it's getting lost to auth blocks, as I've referred to in >>46464 (ongoing list of login/auth blocks).

have you heard about the recent censorship of steam and itch.io? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-apologise-for-frustration-and-confusion-after-delisting-thousands-of-nsfw-projects seems to cover most of it, including a link to the vice news article that was censored as well. twitter is freaking out about it rn, as usual

>>46603 I've checked the link, many thanks for the info. However, Itch.io posted a statement clarifying that they'd "deindexed" all NSFW work content from their browse and search pages, following a campaign against them and Steam by the Collective Shout organisation, that targeted payment providers due to a game titled No Mercy, which was temporarily available on itch.io before being derezzed back in April. Hmmm... this actually reminds me of Wikipedia covering censorship in regards to video games, like GTA:SA having a patch. - https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-processors - https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/no_mercy - https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content ... Ugh. This is just awful because first,, I said back in my first thread concerning this, "itch.io began hiding collections with 18+ games in 2023 and now they've hidden the 'adult' tag for such content, but still can be accessed". I said thus: "Are they taking steps to hide all 18+ content like this? ... itch.io is being mean to people wanting to play/download 18+ games on the site. Had anybody came across this issue recently with the platform?" Now it's for real?

>>46603 visa/master are funding real rape on porn sites and have no issue processing money for european whore houses known to sex traffic but they do hunt porn drawings... So its factually a lie when they claim they are banning games/ art commission for brand safety. Real motivation? i think they are trying to monopolize the market. They are killing all competition that is not owned by their friends. The whole idea of payment processors being able to tell where your money goes is a problem that needs to be killed in general. US had bill attempting to ban it but it got repelled. They didnt give up however and other countries are working on replacing them entirely as a permanent solution.

>>46607 > visa/master are funding real rape on porn sites >Image is a MSM a article lying calling teenagers and young looking legal adults "children" and calling them on their own accord exposing themselves for a fetish of theirs, attention or money as "abuse" This is the same kind of talk that has lead to the current situation in the first place. The issue isn't straight from the payment processors themselves they are just one step along the line. They are responding to the passing of SESTA (previously called FOSTA) and being threatened by religious NGOs with an agenda to end porn and nudity. This has lead to many websites having login and ID blocks and others to be shut down. They need to be attacked on all fronts through law changes and cutting off their money sources as well as promoting alternative payment methods.

>>46607 >"They are killing all competition that is not owned by their friends." The login/auth blocks in general is killing guest accessibility, like going on Twitter - only to find a login wall when, you know, there isn't a need for it. And archiving NSFW content is going to be a problem as well. When I researched Collective Shout's coverage of Steam and itch.io censorship, I thought, "what even is this?". I was bamboozled. Collective Shout seems to be affiliated with the problems that NCOSE has; I don't believe it's a Puritian move but flat-out censorship - but a few saw this and aggressively called out to the charity (which is Australia-based). I've never heard of that charity before but I think they are pursuing a long-standing battle to ban NSFW content from other platforms. And here I am going back to continue this long-standing battle of accessibility for guests who want to view, let's say, Tumblr, for site searches as well as bringing back NSFW content from the 2018 apocalypse - all without an alternate frontend like Tumbig. ... whew. >>46603 What happened with the Vice article? One of the news sources said it got deleted - but I seen it was archived, via archive.ls.

>>46609 Strange because Vice has a similar article https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-vtuber-just-raised-over-780-for-the-aclu-after-steams-new-content-policies-her-anti-censorship-message-is-urgent/

>>46608 >Image is a MSM a article lying calling teenagers and young looking legal adults "children" and calling them on their own accord exposing themselves >This is the same kind of talk that has lead to the current situation in the first place. You making soykaf up here, its not about someone underage looking posting their pics for money themself. Pornsites get actual rape uploaded by gangs to make money and only is used to sell prostitution not just pics. US had court cases with ponrsites arguing "well we cant tell from the video if the rape is real and its not our fault verification of identity can be faked" and that was good enough to continue for them. Its factually known that rape content is distributed on these platforms and visa/master maintain relations with these sites while punishing artists drawing porn. >and being threatened by religious NGOs with an agenda to end porn and nudity Fake excuse to avoid responsibility. Who in US cares about 7 australian hags complaining? They have no power so they can't be more than a excuse. Not to mention that the amount of complaints these payment processors got from banning commission payment is far larger but that didn't matter when it came to closing services...

>>46610 Found a quote from that Vice link: >"it’s about protecting free expression – If they get their way, it won't stop here". I've applied the idea of "censorship could be hit by an unknown force" because it's a "you either support it or you hate it" situation for anyone in the community. Be it defensive or not, I feel like it's a tough situation to grasp. >They have no power so they can't be more than a excuse. Well, to be honest, some companies have rights. Nothing beyond our control, and is again, a "you either support it or you hate it" situation for anybody. I'm not involved, it's... companies being companies? This is a lot to unpack for those new here and/or just visiting.

After looking further into it it seems its a international operation to kill internet anonymity. Australia will get auth blocks for identification in december, EU next year. They use "protecting kids from porn, hate speech etc." as the excuse as usual. UK got it just yesterday and its already giving an idea of the implementation. Also call me shizo but i noticed the australian ngo that got used to justify payment processors attacking steam/itch.io has the same logo as the authentication company currently policing UK visitors on reddit.

Well, the Itch.io guidelines seem to be trending on Bluesky today: https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/346345733 Good grief, this stuff about Itch.io gets everywhere! And it's because a few people reached out to me about it. A charity removes a game from Steam and changes a part of their ToS thanks to a lot of people signing a petition? Really?! This is too much to take in! Anyway, baroness.bsky.social‬ said: "Having checked itch a few times now, I can confirm a lot of games, including erotic games, are back to being listed again. "There are also some reports from creators their non-porn games were listed again after unticking the 'sensitive to minors' box. Itch doesn't actually have a porn tick box." Another one showed that a game/project was delisted: https://bsky.app/profile/eddyratt.bsky.social/post/3luqdppmags22 And lastly, mandoqueer.itch.io‬ and gifti3.bsky.social are attempting to keep track of games which have been removed from itch and attempting to help in knowing where authors of this content are moving. The document has registered 100 games and counting: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370

>>46619 itch.io is similar to Tumblr and Gumroad in banning NSFW content/payment issues now. Speaking of Tumblr, I want visual depictions of sexually explicit acts or content with an overt focus on genitalia to be allowed on the site, and blogs sharing sexually explicit content never to be terminated because I 100% care about NSFW content. Tumblr should be bringing back porn. Same as itch.io and Gumroad. Banning adult content on sites like this kept the sites in decline. Same as blocking the accessibility of NSFW content for guests. Same as blocking the accessibility of social media sites for guests. Yes, I want this to stop, flat-out stop. No content labels or login walls.

>>46620 Tumblr had an issue of porn spamming accounts that were operated by bots that try to follow random people. Not that I am against sexual content but those were annoying. I thought the deal with Tumblr was because of the passing of FOSTA-SESTA in 2018. This same time every website derezzed any sexual content or nudity including by file storage services and lal the big tech giants. Though it probably was a case of both.

>>46621 had to check what FOSTA-SESTA is, how are anti sex traffic laws relevant for drawings? Did they sneak in "all porn derezzed" to include drawings?

>>46622 That has to do with unverified claims by NCOSE and Collective Shout, to name a few groups, of underage porn attempted to be hosted or sold through site for drawings but also because at some point during George W Bush administration US law started counting drawings as illegal under the special circumstance they are made using real people so for example traced underage porn could be argued to fall under this, but that also often is unverifiable and similarities can be pure coincidence. The law change was more intended for CGI that completely models realistic actual minors motion capture and all since they wrongly claimed it would be used to circumvent the law but likely it was motivated to increase the surveillance state because no previous case even existed to even try to justify the law change. This is a bit confusing on why Pixiv also derezzed Fanbox commission for art that is not actually illegal under US law except for old outdated obscenity laws nearly never used but I assume the NCOSE or Collective Shout lied to the Japanese owners after they got the payment processors to go after them. After the change to rules pressure don them Pixiv implemented content blocks on anyone outside of Japan, though kind of randomly where it is difficult to tell what tags they are blocking, so you had to change your location you appear as to view some artwork so login blocks and ID checks are not even the only methods currently locking people out of content on websites making them jump through all sorts of hoops. Worst case scenario is these methods combined where websites all over will begging to be fully region locked and require local ID to access proving your citizenship.

>>46623 >unverified claims That is strange. But people on social media had began protests on Collective Shout, Visa and Mastercard, and boy it's chaotic. >>46621 >Tumblr had an issue of porn spamming accounts that were operated by bots that try to follow random people That should've been derezzed in 2018, not actual NSFW content, keeping actual media and blogs in the long run. The login wall problem still persists, on the other hand and I really want that gone from the site, too.

latest uk soykaf: 300k people signed petittion and got as reply "your concern is noted but we do it anyway in full measure, enjoy" and they considering banning vpn now too to extend their censorship as vpn sales have skyrocketed. Why would you avoid it? They already used it to censor a livestream of a uk protest

>>46626 Maybe if everyone collectively starts erecting guillotines and they will get the message.

Some NSFW/mature bypass userscripts I published: https://sleazyfork.org/scripts/535569-baraag-unspoiler-nsfw-images https://sleazyfork.org/scripts/540063-imhentai-remove-sensitive-image-filters https://sleazyfork.org/scripts/544055-artstation-show-mature-content Unrelated but if you use SauceNAO a lot you may find these useful: https://greasyfork.org/scripts/544011-saucenao-drag-and-drop-image-anywhere-in-page https://greasyfork.org/scripts/544013-saucenao-compress-downscale-image-before-uploading

>>46644 McAfee marked sleazyfork as suspicious but thank you for this. Anyway I found out that HFTGOOM has been restricted in the UK on itch.io thanks to the Online Safety Act: https://bsky.app/profile/tmccue.bsky.social/post/3lv37l56vzc2i If you can remember, I've spoken about Steam blocking games like this one, and itch.io asking for your age consents for some games with this GB game being an example. But this - restricting NSFW content - is wrong and getting out of control. From https://itch.io/t/5133739/our-update-on-the-uk-online-safety-act, the staff said that as of July 25, 2025, the OSA requires platforms to implement age verification systems to prevent minors from accessing adult content, and that itch.io have had to implement geographic restrictions on project pages with NSFW or adult content for UK users. The site had added a “Geo Restrictions” tab to the Distribute section of a project’s dashboard that has a combination of the “Has sensitive content” setting and the use of specific tags: “porn,” “adult,” “hentai,” “erotic,” and “sex”, automatically applying a restriction in the UK. This is a huge mistake because, like I've said countless times before, I want NSFW content accessible for guests without age-gates, age checks, or global restrictions, like I've seen in the past. The very same is applied to social media websites being free of login walls. And yes, the author of HFTGOOM launched a new, self-hosted website: https://taylormccue.neocities.org All the games can be accessed here without any problems! So that's super cool :D

I have been checking the Google Doc on the Itch.io issue time after time, and the people that are still working on the document have updated the list of games, books, etc. It's here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 Some of the games are currently unavailable or currently suspended - for example, a trilogy of games by Chimériquement. Another link I've found: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/whats-going-on-with-steam-and-itchios-crackdown-on-adult-content Like I've said over and over again, I want Tumblr to bring back all NSFW content, same with itch.io and Gumroad, without a problem - be it age verfication or age-gates. If a site keeps banning adult content on sites like Tumblr, it keep the sites in decline. It's the vey same as blocking the accessibility of NSFW content for guests and blocking the accessibility of social media sites for guests with login walls. Why? It's not right at all. Login walls and age-gates are killing the internet. This place is like the only thing we have left.

I've found another link thanks to zzzchan.xyz making a thread about the same situation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aAbrEDNa2NmgntrKtij0RuxKneiFcTJisGyfMUv2nnM It's a document relating to Steam's pulling/banning of NSFW games in regards to the situation we're in. This crackdown is huge, if I say so myself. Some of the games shown on this list are from Japan, and I think other imageboards/communities are acting on this. All the while I'm researching ways to reverse the situation.

>>46658 jp games have been delisted long before this already. I dont play sofporn games so i dont know details but ive seen jp devs complain about them censoring their game to comly with steam and still getting delisted with a "bans are permanent deal with it" response so they dont even get a chance to try again. Allegedly they have some jp hater working actively on hurting jp. Frankly ive experienced my own ridiculous steam censorship when a post of mine got deleted and the reasoning was "combative". They literally couldn't find a fault so they made something up to censor me.

Annnnnnd... now the UK's OSA is happening around the internet: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2xx6z6eko It's going to make accessibly and scraping of NSFW content even harder until people like us revert the situation...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/121th-congress/senate-bill/1748 bill to implement auth block on hardware level.

>>46658 I have some good news. Itch.io has begun reindexing NSFW projects: -https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content -https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/itch-io-is-restoring-some-nsfw-content/

>>44447 For your information, 4K Video Downloader had fixed the "Error: failed to download" message/IP bans from YouTube as of the updates that got recently released on the program :D

Today, I was thinking about if login/auth blocks and NSFW content blocks affected the robots.txt for websites. In 2014, I called out in regards to this Tumblr account, creepyponies.tumblr.com, being flagged as mature and disallowed robots.txt on sites such as Google: https://web.archive.org/web/20181211191221/http://creepyponies.tumblr.com/post/80065708517/i-have-elected-to-flag-this-blog-for-mature The author, aisu-isme said this was a cleanup, but if this broke the mould for flagging NSFW content this way, creepyponies.tumblr.com would be the first, in my opinion. Note that this was a change I wasn't able to cope with at the time, but nowadays it's nothing much at all! And of course, I'm just experimenting with ideas like this one because sometimes, I ramble on with ideas and opinions. So, can blocks and bans affect robots.txt/webcrawler flagging as of yet? This happened with Tumblr in 2017, when it was more commonplace. Picture's unrelated!

>>46671 When I visited https://pixelrye.itch.io/ it gave me a message about the OSA instead of the profile page saying it "has been restricted from access within the UK due to the Online Safety Act". Itch.io should have been able to provide this specific content or service to users in the UK even if they hope to make more content available in the future. This is a huge error and restrictions like this are incorrectly applied. Why? Because OSA is wrong BS.

>>46722 Actually, this user had been making SFW Yume Nikki fangames with animal characters but the profile page for them has been incorrectly restricted by UK's OSA/Ofcom. I've checked their Tumblr for more information on whatever date the restrictions were misplaced, but I couldn't find anything there. However, Ofcom and/or OSA is wrong to affect people viewing/scaping specific material, especially NSFW content and I wish the OSA to be scrapped because, like I've said before, "it's going to make accessibly and scraping of NSFW content even harder until people like us revert the situation". This ridiculous OSA censorship had gone way too far for opinion sakes, because it ruined everything. Last night, I had a panic attack because of this and another issue on the internet elsewhere. Reverting censorship must happen, so likewise it's a case of disregarding censorship more than 100%.

Update: bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/346345733 has stopped being a trend, but I've been really busy tech people and SEL fans. Hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel for some website problems.

>>46731 There's a new trending feed for itch.io: https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/370977141 One of these I came across was from https://bsky.app/profile/sjklapecki.itch.io/post/3lwc6nzwggs2l which was about a user just recalculating the entire risk assessment. It was linked to a post from itch.io themselves in a reply to a login/auth blocked account about 'monster girls' being flagged as a secret NSFW tag, saying that "it's possible at some point [the user] could have added a tag to [their] page that is commonly associated with explicit adult content." From this post (https://bsky.app/profile/shorknsfw.bsky.social/post/3lwc4jwald22r), it was a SFW connect-3 puzzle game that got affected because "their system is designed to quarantine certain content in advance". There's a thread all about this: https://bsky.app/profile/cometoblivion.bsky.social/post/3lwc5wkjwmc2l Another post from https://bsky.app/profile/eev.ee/post/3lwc5ss7nms2l talks about making a long thread, wanting itch.io to explain why each of a dozen games is deindexed, saying "they would have to sift through it all." "Why would a game be deindexed when it has no explicit content?" the user asked, before "it's tagged 'mature', what are we doing here?" Another post I found is from https://bsky.app/profile/foxyoreos.bsky.social/post/3lwc55cpmnk2a about the site, https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/ and I found something interesting regarding UK's OSA: "The UK's adoption of the Online Safety Act has similar motives as Collective Shout's outcry to censor sexual content, and just as much overreaches into anything they deem as "obscene", such as LGBTQ+ content. The bill's aim isn't to protect who they claim to protect, but rather an excuse to censor whatever they see fit." Some misinformation in indexing on itch.io: https://bsky.app/profile/thefreeradical.org/post/3lwbwbhtmqc23 This thread's huge! It's about games being invisible from autocomplete (one of the main ways people find games) and games being deindexed when they know it's SFW, and a game jam has also reportedly seen over half of its 200 and more games delisted, with several removed from itch.io completely. It's on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, too: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchios-mass-delisting-of-paid-adult-content-has-also-affected-safe-for-work-games-with-yuri-or-lesbian-themes-devs-claim >>46726 I had posted about what happened to pixelrye/ClingingLies's itch.io page on Uboachan before it got deleted, causing me to repost it. This user makes SFW Yume Nikki fangames with animal characters, but nothing's wrong with them, it's the OSA restricting their account page for the wrong reasons, since the user's games have always been SFW, like all the other games being affected by itch.io in the long run.

>>46809 I found this site that's tracking itch.io censorship, thanks to a forum post on the Google Doc I posted eariler: https://goony.dev/

>>46809 Something I found on Bluesky, continuing the itch.io controversy problem: https://bsky.app/profile/wootmaster.bsky.social/post/3lwcfjcga3k26 itch.io had gone around and responding to people who tagged them and manually reindexing their games bit by bit; the user who posted this said "it's the worst sloppiest thing to do", regarding itch.io not having better visibility around how indexing works.

>>46811 goony.dev is now down and when I checked itch.io, the post was deleted 14 hours ago. sad

>>46809 I have a question regarding these links: - https://bsky.app/profile/sjklapecki.itch.io/post/3lwc6nzwggs2l - https://bsky.app/profile/shorknsfw.bsky.social/post/3lwc4jwald22r - https://bsky.app/profile/cometoblivion.bsky.social/post/3lwc5wkjwmc2l What is the SFW connect-3 puzzle game that got mentioned, and who made it if it's login-blocked?

When I used 4K Video Downloader Plus on this video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBtO3PnLSb4) it said it was flagged as age-restricted when it isn't due to the fact I enjoy some content. When I tested www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKVReaoJHvc on the original 4K Video Downloader, it instead read "can't parse this link". However, I used other video converters that bypass this age-gate without issue. The real strangest thing here is that I don't know why Blits Azalis Dash (the creator of the speedpaint) would flag it when the video has content warnings/notices over the place. I fully know YouTube had went downhill recently with AI/ads/etc., but downloading things like this when it's flagged as age-restricted is a different thing entirely.

>>46809 Well that feed had stopped trending now. Other than that, I don't know the login/auth blocked (private) account who made the SFW connect-3 puzzle game that was flagged for NSFW incorrectly on itch.io to this day, nor the the game itself. I know Steam has issues but the censorship on the internet is making the internet difficult to cope, in my opinion.

Thanks to XCancel, I found that this link (https://e-hentai.org/g/3399371/b98c41630e/) bought up a message about the content being unavailable in the United Kingdom "due to intrusive and privacy-invasive mandatory age verification legally required by the Online Safety Act" instead of viewing media (yes, I was being nosy). Again, the reason OSA should be scrapped, and yes it's even mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification because Section 12 of the Act states that service providers have been using age verification or age estimation technology in order to prevent users from being able to access primary priority content unless they are appropriately-aged. This provision shouldn't apply to all services that allow categories of primary priority content to be made available, including social networks and internet pornography because I care hugely on people viewing and archiving this sort of stuff. I'm old enough to view things like this, and I'm one of many who wants this nonsense reduced to nothing. I want the OSA gone since it ruins your experience (especially if you are over 18 years old).

>>46896 That's happened as of recent. And, yes, XCancel is the newest nitter branch available. I've been browsing Google and GitHub. Turns out I've found this about age verification: https://github.com/zzniki/fake-age-verification Especially this quote: >"Anonymity is an essential part of the internet" From https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318?permalink_comment_id=5691426 I've learned that Mississippi users are completely blocked from acccessing Bluesky due to HB1126, which would require identity verification for all users regardless of content preferences. Most of these are reminding people like us to sign the petition to the UK parliament to attempt to have the Online Safety Act repealed or reconsidered, and contact the local MP to express their concerns regarding the Act stripping away their privacy, safety and freedoms. Meanwhile, [i]https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/6686 shows the same login cookie workarounds, I'm not entirely sure. One of the strangest things I've read is from https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/7736 about some tags are only visible after logging in, not by login cookies, but local storage being used for authentication. It was fixed so that the cookies work instead. There's more on https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/ if you want to check them out. (May contain lots of code that I've read quickly!)

Something weird happened when I was using FreeConvert. Normally it inputs out_of_conversion_minutes for guest users (you can clearly see it in the first image), however, it only downloaded one image. The rest of the images simply suffered an error and then gave me a message reading "you've reached your limit of 10 operations". How on earth is that even possible? This "10 operations" limit is not even in the code when I checked https://www.freeconvert.com/api/v1/#errors. Could anybody look into this for me? If so, thanks in advance!

Remember the message that you get if you wanted to view an 18+ game on itch.io? Sources: https://old.reddit.com/r/itchio/comments/1drc0us/how_to_remove_this_page_my_game_isnt_18_it_is/ Post >>43699 Part of that had changed to say "please input your birthdate to view" if you aren't in the UK(?). Source: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/we-believe-these-restrictions-harm-creative-expression-the-reaction-to-the-uks-online-safety-act And that has devastating consequences as I've found out in that link. If one project is flagged NSFW, the account is blocked by the Online Safety Act if you are in the UK. This is not the case with post >>46726 where I found out geo-restrictions were misplaced.

Here is my list of login/auth blocks issues, now updated to include the OSA. Most of these are aimed at NSFW content. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but now also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ (this is the only one I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store) Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (NSFW-blocked) Tumblr: -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts) https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

I'll cover a few things I've forgotten - or, at the very least, update. First off, this list of login/auth blocks hadn't been updated in a while. itch.io: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 >>46675 >"Itch.io has begun reindexing NSFW projects" However, this only applies to free projects, while the platform's looking for a way to reindex paid projects. >>46717 4K Video Downloader had gave me "Error: failed to download" message/IP bans from YouTube yet again, possibly because my copy hasn't updated in a while. Whenever this happens, I have been using amp4.cc to download YouTube videos instead. If anybody knows how YouTube handles IP bans, please let me know.

>>46933 Here is something I've found concerning YouTube in the USA, it's about extending teen protection.

>>46951 It's akshully just another means to verify your identity. If you watch spiderman x elsa videos and then a bunch of capeshit and minecraft, it will flag you as an underage and you will need to validate your identity to google to verify that you are in fact a real human bean who is over 18. Don't be too concerned about it, its only datamining.

>>46951 What the fuarrrk are these "wellbeing tools"? Setting uploads to private sounds like a means of isolation since it means all the teen music and animation videos will be shut down.

>>46988 It's supposed to keep kids dancing in swimsuits for tiktok likes from being seen by predators. Think of how bad that would be if it went viral. The stockholders would have a fit if regulators got involved.

>>46992 You just have been fed bad information. Majority of all kidnappings are the parents in disputes. Majority of all sexual assault is by peers, and family.

>>46933 Now I can't update 4K Video Downloader Plus anymore because my laptop runs Windows 7... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Here is my list of login/auth blocks issues (most of these are aimed at NSFW content) and how you can help. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but now also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ (this is the only one I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store) Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (NSFW-blocked) Tumblr: -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts) https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

>>47178 sorry i forgotten the itch.io spreadsheet whoops

>>46986 Well, I've found that message about YouTube extending teen protection via Tumblr. I am not sure if this is going to affect the UK and other parts of the world, but we'll see. - Going back to the itch.io and Steam issues regarding games, itch.io deindexed Fear and Hunger and Fear and Hunger 2: Termina. Had anyone noticed this? While I had seen this via a Tumblr post, I haven't seen Steam delist both Fear and Hunger games. It's possibly because both games were preserved if itch.io can't keep up with their payment processors over the state of their NSFW issue (which Steam shares with). - >>45891 >>46896 XCancel had fixed the accessibility on NSFW content. However, I haven't seen an announcement anywhere on their GitHub. ... or maybe they fixed it together, who knows?

>>47214 Here's the official YouTube blog page for the wellbeing tools: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-safety-and-digital-wellbeing-options-younger-people-youtube-and-youtube-kids/ - https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/mature-nsfw-content/ I want blogs that share content containing visual depictions of sexually explicit acts to be wholly re-allowed on Tumblr. Links or ads for adult affiliate networks or escort/erotic services should still be prohibited, though. Blogs sharing sexually explicit content will never be terminated if Tumblr re-allows the content, because Safe Mode affected NSFW content, and still is to blame.

I don't know if it still works, but two year ago when they newgrounds phased in login for nsfw content, i figured out they secured access to nsfw art mainly by obfuscating the ngfiles url and you could realistically bruteforce it by looking at the ids in the download link of any surrounding non-nsfw submissions. This is the script i used: #!/bin/rc if(! ~ $#* 3) {echo Usage: ngidspn n m addr >[1=2]; exit 1} n=`{expr $1 + 1}; m=`{expr $2 - 1}; a=`{echo $3 | sed 's/.*newgrounds\.com\/art\/view\///'} u seq $n $m | {while(i=`{read} && ! flag c) if(wget https://art.ngfiles.com/images/`{expr $i / 1000 '*' 1000}^/$i^_`{echo $a | cut -d/ -f 1}^_`{echo $a |cut -d/ -f 2}^.png) flag c +;}

>>47309 My word... how did you do that? Most of the time on Newgrounds you're able to see E, T and M-rated content. I remembered that, in 2022, A-rated content could still be accessed because the auth blocks were disabled previously due to the high volume of new accounts and associated anti-spam API calls; hence the reshuffling of where NG does spam checks: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1511759/1 NG had updated the age-gates thanks to OSA, which seems fair on accounts who had been ten years old: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1549829/1 better than itch.io... sigh. The team said, "the flow isn’t perfect at the moment", and they are using Yoti for age verification.

Imgur had stopped people uploading NSFW content to the site and now they are stopping people in the UK from browsing the site: https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/31844016762779-Explicit-content-on-Imgur https://imgur.com/a/URkPW92 (https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo) This should have not even happened because the UK Online Safety Act ruined everything for sites such as itch.io. "Some Imgur users and reports speculated as to whether Imgur moved to block UK users from its services, rather than comply with child safety duties recently imposed on some platforms under the Online Safety Act" BBC said - and this is all the OSA's fault for killing websites. Same thing goes with Tumblr in 2018, all because Safe Mode was implemented to block the hell out of people scraping NSFW content. This is something I really want changed and counteracted upon so that accessibility remains true for the future. I want people to enjoy searching for things as a guest, no geoblocks, no age checks and no login walls at all. Forever.

Here is my list of login/auth blocks issues (most of these are aimed at NSFW content) and how you can help. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks [/i] These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but now also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: [i]-https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ (this is the only one I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store) Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (NSFW-blocked) Tumblr: -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 Itch.io: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 -https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content -https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/itch-io-is-restoring-some-nsfw-content/ Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts) https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

Google has locked SafeSearch settings to filter on my IP address thanks to "local laws"... double-checked it's not even in the help page. That should've never happened because I liked it when Google never even implemented SafeSearch to begin with. Again, OSA's fault, and that ruins everything for me as well as everyone in the UK without any login credentials. Anybody getting the same thing while browsing Google? Thanks in advance.

>>47413 I don't know anybody getting the same issue, but anyways: Normally, Google's SafeSearch feature can be toggled between filter, blur or off, but now it's set to filter and you can only toggle filters with a login. Is this a bug? I've found a question on Google Help, but all leads have come up empty.

>>47443 >"I've found a question on Google Help, but all leads have come up empty." It's the same with Reddit and every other source the internet could think of ATM. No progress so far.

>>47490 Update: https://www.google.com/search?q=safesearch+local+laws&sca_esv=3aa6d84c464b4bf8&source=hp&ei=DfX_aNPRLo-uhbIPn9CquQk&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaQADHbs7Qbx29YZOMyW-WjcW2r-zcPXd&ved=0ahUKEwiTjOXHucWQAxUPV0EAHR-oKpcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=safesearch+local+laws&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz Gemini, Google's AI thingy showed there's no universal reference to "local laws", it mentions the OSA and uses login credentials... what the heck's going on?

I really want Tumblr to reallow NSFW content, and the OSA to be scrapped because it's ruining the internet. I know I'm autistic but all of this had impacted people who really want to archive NSFW material at their own leisure. I mean, Tumblr changed their rules in 2022, but that's not enough. What I want for Tumblr is 100% bringing back NSFW content and blogs, if not just the accessibility. Speaking of which: https://archive.is/o8JZg Somebody mentioned censorship, but why would people do that when all they were trying to do was get the message across like I am in this thread about the issues that the internet is currently facing?

>>47573 I mean... look deeper. Is it just me or is the internet censorship-happy when it comes to things like blocking guests from accessing social media and NSFW material, even though we are over 18? What the hell is going on with this nonsense companies put up? It went too far, and I am aware that internet accessibility had really crumbled. I have a lot of problems but this thread in general seemed to stick out like a sore thumb - or worse, a soya coffee brew-type of storm. Image unrelated.

Time and time again, I had been improving my list of login/auth blocks issues and how you can help. Please note that most of these are aimed at NSFW content and the UK's Online Safety Act. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but now also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to a global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Please note that this does not apply to a blacklist anybody that can customise themselves. Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ Please note that this is the only forum post I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store. Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (this post had been NSFW-blocked) Their OSA issue is covered by Yoti. Tumblr: -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 (thanks to PixelJail for the discovery) Itch.io: -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 -https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content -https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/itch-io-is-restoring-some-nsfw-content/ Imgur: -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/31844016762779-Explicit-content-on-Imgur -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom Google (OSA-related?): https://www.google.com/search?q=safesearch+local+laws&sca_esv=3aa6d84c464b4bf8&source=hp&ei=DfX_aNPRLo-uhbIPn9CquQk&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaQADHbs7Qbx29YZOMyW-WjcW2r-zcPXd&ved=0ahUKEwiTjOXHucWQAxUPV0EAHR-oKpcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=safesearch+local+laws&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts) https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

bumping since its important testing is this still on

I haven't been updating this thread as I still have other problems to deal with. As such, I've been committing to many different things, and so, please watch this space.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4237 It read that there was a bug that caused NSFW content to be accessible without authentication via user comments. I would really like it like this, however: >NSFW content is accessible without authentication And, boy, there are lots of repos here: https://github.com/topics/nsfw?o=asc&s=forks

>>47321 >"Some Imgur users and reports speculated as to whether Imgur moved to block UK users from its services, rather than comply with child safety duties recently imposed on some platforms under the Online Safety Act" BBC said..." It's actually because Imgur was blocked in the UK in response to a potential fine from the Information Commissioner's Office regarding its handling of children's personal data. This is something I want reverted for all UK users as well as NSFW content being allowed again because I care a lot about people scraping NSFW content in general.

>>46915 More examples: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101000000*/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis (all archived versions) https://web.archive.org/web/20231104035145/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis (old message that you get if you wanted to view an 18+ game on itch.io) https://web.archive.org/web/20250729014406/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis (new message that you get if you wanted to view an 18+ game on itch.io)

>>47745 Interestingly, this was a game I've tested for the 18+ message that recently changed to really ask you for your date of birth, which has, in my own honest opinion, has become repetitive on a lot of websites whenever it comes to NSFW content. Also, this meant that the creator page is blocked because of UK's OSA. The game itself isn't delisted, and/or part of those documents where people tracked down NSFW games on itch.io being deindexed, but I am not sure on why. https://web.archive.org/web/20231104035145/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis (please do not check 'remember settings' and click 'I'm over 18', I am not doing it at all)

Remember when I covered a Steam user on my old thread? https://lainchan.org/r/res/39406.html#q42024 This is a prime example that Steam blocking NSFW content is wrong and that a TBoI mod (that changes most sprites to NSFW ones) is, indeed, floating around. However, the example I showed you here? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2776184908 Has this image been deleted because of the controversy that unfolded in regards to Collective Shout's impact on Steam, itch.io and payment options? If the game's a third-party one that got on to Steam, had that been affected/taken down by said controversy?

Forgot to add an image for post >>47815 so I did just that. However, I had recently used TurboScribe to view YouTube videos because some YouTube converters aren't working on my laptop. All the video links I've copied and pasted from Piped (as there still is a bot issue that's blocking us from viewing videos) worked on there despite the poor quality. Sometimes these expire and give you 403 errors, meaning that you have to refresh TurboScribe with the YouTube link included. This link, however? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCtBk0D0ls8 (it's a Twitch stream VoD) Pasting that URL in TurboScribe had given me 403 errors from the start instead of a video. I don't know if this is an age-gated video? Copyright restrictions? I've added an image for URL details, but if both are the same, what of YT:LCtBk0D0ls8 or other videos affected in this way?

In the previous thread I've mentioned YouTube had issues regarding some age-restricted videos: https://lainchan.org/r/res/39406.html#q41881 However, while I may be okay with age-restricted videos on YouTube (because the site's been greatly affected by adverts before videos), there's another problem that should be dealt with. If age-restricted YouTube videos get embedded in a web page, you'll see the message "This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube. Learn more; Watch on YouTube", and I have grown sick and tired of it since this causes a lot of problems for those who had an account on YouTube. Here's a Google link: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802167?hl=en-GB Seriously, YouTube has gone as far as keeping accounts away from viewing age-restricted videos on third-party sites. Not just anybody without an account, but those with an account as well, which has been unfair for them because said videos would have been viewable anywhere on the web. As for me, this had become repetitive on a Tumblr blog where a couple of posts (if not just reposts) share the same video and I've grown sick of this. When I put the video ID (which the Tumblr blog mentioned) in Piped (a YouTube alt frontend)'s search, it bought up an image with a blurred-out thumbnail, which is typical for YouTube videos that are age-restricted: https://piped.kavin.rocks/results?search_query=OKcz6m4KpyI However, when I put the URL of the video in TurboScribe to download, it stopped at 47% and came back with "Unable to download anything from this URL". Does this look similar to post >>46869 (when I used 4K Video Downloader Plus)?

>>47862 Forgotten to post the images in the previous post. As I've said, YouTube has gone as far as keeping people with YouTube accounts away from viewing age-restricted videos on third-party sites and has become repetitive. The videos would have been viewable anywhere on the web if YouTube didn't slap a redirecting wall of text when people have an account with their D.O.B. credentials. God forbid.

>>47862 I think this is because the creator of that video had disabled downloading it off of TurboScribe. Speaking of which, the site had given me more 403 errors from the beginning, like the one I've mentioned in >>47816 Does anyone know why this keeps happening?

Bumping as usual. I'm sorry if I'm inactive because I had personal issues elsewhere and it had taken a huge toll on my mental health ever since it was too much. Kind regards.

>>47863 This same issue with YouTube happened again with another video (video ID is VhAkTSzcuCQ) and I inspected it via Chrome's code console... thingy. More details in the first image. Like I've said, YouTube has gone as far as keeping people with YouTube accounts away from viewing age-restricted videos on third-party sites and has become repetitive. On another tangent, there was a whole slew of 'just posted [controversial] art of Minkie Pie' reposts on Tumbig: https://www.tumgik.com/isaac-blooms-archives (yes the very same blog I've mentioned in the previous post) One of the reposts was referring to Vivziepop and a (broken) Tumblr video, which somehow gave me an 'access denied' error? That post in question was mysteriously deleted off of Tumblr when I was going to inspect the console for details on the video.

Found out that TikTok is doing the same thing with age-gating videos, because when I accessed this link (https://www.tiktok.com/@zoochosisgame?lang=en-GB) there's a message between the profile and videos that reads "Posts that some may find uncomfortable are unavailable. Log in to make the most of your TikTok experience". Another source was from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rickbeldenpoet/videos/i-discovered-yesterday-that-tiktok-is-restricting-visibility-of-this-video-and-r/1527258135154898/ I had said this countless times that age-restricting content to login authentications on sites like Twitter, Tumblr and Steam is 100 percent wrong and cruel in so many ways. This is censorship of people's browsing freely on the web. Speaking of Steam, DreadXP released a game as shareware after a last-minute change to the game store's terms of service (which wasn't only covered here, but also https://lainchan.org/inter/res/8709.html): https://dreadxp.com/vile-is-derezzed/ For those who weren't already aware, there were many games removed from Steam and one of these caught in the crossfire was VILE: Exhumed. Intended to be released for sale on July 22, 2025 via Steam, the game was removed from Steam and (wrongfully) derezzed for sale over “sexual content with depictions of real people” on July 28, 2025. What this actually resulted in was taking power and storytelling away from women, other marginalized artists, and ultimately, from everyone. It's a direct attack on creative expression and artistic freedom. But in August 5 2025, DreadXP published VILE: Exhumed as a free, downloadable game that supports charity profits, and people screaming out "DISREGARD CENSORSHIP" and "This is all thanks to Collective Shout and payment processors unfortunately". Very cruel indeed.

>>48086 I'm sorry, but is it just me or the site's language enhancer break the link to VILE: Exhumed's shareware page? (Gosh I laughed so hard, it was just the funniest highlight of my day today!) dreadxp.com/vile-is-ban ned/ Fixed it so that there won't be issues with the language enhancer again; just pop it in your browser's address bar ;)

>>48086 This had been mentioned in a television advertisement for TikTok via ITV1, saying "some functions require people to be older" in comparison to the 13+ recommendation for people using the site (in tiny advert print). Whenever I said "age-restricting content to login authentications on sites", I'm referring to how sites are taking the accessibility of some content away from everyone; a direct attack on people's freedom to browse/scrape freely like in the 2000's when login/auth blocks weren't invented until early 2018 with Tumblr's problematic Safe Mode, which I had believed the reason behind their NSFW content purge and nothing else that sparked this off.

>>46886 I had tried https://bskyviewer.github.io/ for https://bsky.app/profile/sjklapecki.itch.io/post/3lwc6nzwggs2l since my mind was begging to know the login/auth blocked (private) account behind the SFW connect-3 puzzle game that was flagged for NSFW incorrectly on itch.io to this day as well as the game mentioned. This hasn't been the case since the author's account was either closed or deleted, I don't know which. I had other problems with bsky.social and/or bskyviewer, alongside other Tumblr alternate frontends. https://www.tumgik.com/isaac-blooms-archives would show up images but now it never shows them and gives me "403 Forbidden/nginx" errors. This works however: https://www.tumlook.com/isaac-blooms-archives Speaking of which, DecendingAbel (Isaac Blooms) ignored the criticism that he received from a user on BlueSky who called him out for "not mature tagging his art properly", saying Isaac claimed "[his] account was age-restricted" via a YouTube livestream when it was login-auth blocked, and he then blocked that person afterwards. I have the proof from isaac-blooms-archives (from a post at 12:21pm, on Nov 5, 2025): >"I don't know if he had decided to mature tag his blusky art or not because I don't have access to his account because it's login users only AND blusky viewer doesn't say whether or not the art is tagged." [/i] >>43426 Remember that pyromaniacblujay's Twitter, BlueSky and Tumblr accounts were only accessible to logged in users for a short span? Turns out her BlueSky account is still inaccessible to guests: https://bsky.app/profile/incendiary.bsky.social/post/3lvnws7ggik2m (https://bsky.app/profile/pyromaniacblujay.bsky.social) I thought the post was made by this user, also login-blocked (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5vab3odbqwguptaolbny2dhn), but no, this is pyromaniacblujay's doing. The post (when I viewed it on bskyviewer) was actually from pyromaniacblujay's BlueSky account. All the other accounts by her were login-auth blocked for a short while, but the BlueSky account pyromaniacblujay has is still affected by the login-auth block - and now made me extremely angry at her for how she is still doing this. IncendiaryOCT mentioned this in 2025. Note that in the image attached clearly mentions the word "her". If you highlight the account link (pyromaniacblujay.bsky.social), the preview shows a blurred profile picture. The image attached in this post shows a repost that clearly says "Sign-in Required", when it should not even be here and should've displayed the ACTUAL post instead. I have stated this over and over again, that setting an online social media account to a login-blocked state is wrong and I won't tolerate it at all, even with NSFW accounts. seriously stuart what the heck is wrong with you i hate hate HATE how pyromaniacblujay's bluesky account is still login-auth blocked get it UNBLOCKED FOR EVER Last but not least, Tumbig fetches error 500 no matter how much you try using the site. Trying to search for tags is unusable and the homepage doesn't show anything.

>>48129 Regarding bsky.app/profile/incendiary.bsky.social/post/3lvnws7ggik2m I had added the image from bskyviewer for reference. This image should've been displayed on the repost from the actual pyromaniacblujay.bsky.social account, and never, EVER blocking her BlueSky account from being accessible to guests in the first place. >>47745 >>47766 Because the original image was deleted for cleanup reasons(?) here is the new image concerning cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis for reference.

Time and time again, I had been improving my list of login/auth blocks issues and how you can help. Please note that most of these are aimed at NSFW content and the UK's Online Safety Act. This is part 1 of 2, due to a 'too many links flooding' error. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: -https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 -https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter_starts_to_require_login_to_view_tweets/ Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but now also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to a global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Please note that this does not apply to a blacklist anybody that can customise themselves. Steam: Examples: -https://web.archive.org/web/20191101000000*/https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/260330/ -https://steamcommunity.com/id/greenthermite/screenshots/?appid=420110&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall -https://store.steampowered.com/app/2293660/ -https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2664821140 - -https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ Please note that this is the only forum post I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store. Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (this post had been NSFW-blocked) Their issue with the OSA is covered by Yoti. Tumblr: -https://web.archive.org/web/20181216040913/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012260613-November-16-2018-Issues-with-the-iOS-app -https://web.archive.org/web/20181231211747/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20220203015805/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content - -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 (thanks to PixelJail for the discovery) Itch.io (thanks to some anons on Lainchan for the discovery, as seen in https://lainchan.org/r/res/44024.html#q46603): A prime example for all archived versions of the message that you get if you wanted to view an 18+ game on itch.io can be found within https://web.archive.org/web/20231101000000*/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis - -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-apologise-for-frustration-and-confusion-after-delisting-thousands-of-nsfw-projects -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 -https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content -https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/itch-io-is-restoring-some-nsfw-content/ -https://bsky.app/profile/sjklapecki.itch.io/post/3lwc6nzwggs2l -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchios-mass-delisting-of-paid-adult-content-has-also-affected-safe-for-work-games-with-yuri-or-lesbian-themes-devs-claim -https://itch.io/t/5133739/our-update-on-the-uk-online-safety-act -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/we-believe-these-restrictions-harm-creative-expression-the-reaction-to-the-uks-online-safety-act

>>48142 Due to a 'too many links flooding' error, I had to split my list of login/auth blocks issues (as well as how people can combat them) into two parts, so here is part 2 of this list. However, I've also added example links to show a lot of information as well. Both itch.io and Steam: -https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-processors -https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/no_mercy Both of these links was what both itch.io and Steam had to go through. -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/whats-going-on-with-steam-and-itchios-crackdown-on-adult-content Imgur: -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/31844016762779-Explicit-content-on-Imgur -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom Google (OSA-related?): https://www.google.com/search?q=safesearch+local+laws&sca_esv=3aa6d84c464b4bf8&source=hp&ei=DfX_aNPRLo-uhbIPn9CquQk&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaQADHbs7Qbx29YZOMyW-WjcW2r-zcPXd&ved=0ahUKEwiTjOXHucWQAxUPV0EAHR-oKpcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=safesearch+local+laws&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz TikTok: https://www.facebook.com/rickbeldenpoet/videos/i-discovered-yesterday-that-tiktok-is-restricting-visibility-of-this-video-and-r/1527258135154898/ e-hentai (OSA message): https://e-hentai.org/ (only happens if your country is set to UK) Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts): https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

Some more stuff from Fanlore: https://fanlore.org/wiki/FanFiction.Net#Adult_Content https://fanlore.org/wiki/List_of_Content_derezzed_by_Archives#explicit_sex_(also_see_%22pornography,_or_offensive_depictions_of_graphic_sexual_acts%22) There's other links I found: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Itch.io https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Twitter https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/E621 https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Tumblr Speaking of which: On 3 Dec 2018, Tumblr announced that all NSFW content would be removed on 17 Dec 2018, with plenty of misclassifications detected. This SHOULD HAVE been reversed, because Tumblr implementing Safe Mode in 2017-2018 is to blame for all of this.

>>48175 The links I had added in the previous post are from Archive Team, a loose collective of archivists, programmers and writers dedicated to saving the digital heritage since 2009. While e621.net is at risk of being impacted by any age-verification laws passed by Arizona, I have not seen anything regarding the site being at risk of being impacted by UK's Online Saftey Act 2023. I know that itch.io, Imgur, and e-hentai.org are the only ones so far that have been affected by the OSA, and possibly Google's SafeSearch feature. Another link correction due to the site's language enchancer, again over the word "ban ned": fanlore.org/wiki/List_of_Content_ban ned_by_Archives#explicit_sex_(also_see_%22pornography,_or_offensive_depictions_of_graphic_sexual_acts%22)

I want people to combat censorship and the Online Safety Act 2023 in the UK to be wholly scrapped by the government: https://old.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/1mkrwhe/websites_affected_by_uk_age_verification_law_and/ >>47526 I had found more on Google's SafeSearch feature (which could've been toggled between filter, blur or off), but now it's set to filter by the OSA: https://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+birds+analog+horror&sca_esv=88a22a1789578c76&source=hp&ei=GK1waZHIKNidhbIP8tq84AY&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaXC7KLcELKZKi-IXdNuwnnbEGttfPfBF&oq=hollow+bi&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Iglob2xsb3cgYmkqAggDMgUQABiABDILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwEyDxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGAoYCzIFEAAYgAQyBxAuGIAEGAoyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIHEAAYgAQYCjIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAESO9RUABYzylwAHgAkAEAmAHFCaABnCCqAQswLjUuNS0yLjAuMrgBAcgBAPgBAZgCCaAC_iLCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIFEC4YgATCAg4QLhiABBjHARiOBRivAcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAhEQLhiABBixAxjHARiOBRivAZgDAJIHDzAuNC4xLjAuMS4xLjAuMqAH8n2yBw8wLjQuMS4wLjEuMS4wLjK4B_4iwgcFMy0xLjjIB-sBgAgA&sclient=gws-wiz (example also provided in pic) >>47490 Speaking of Reddit's reaction to Google going off the rails: https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1p3ak94/google_appears_to_now_be_locking_safesearch_to_on/ You can not just toggle SafeSearch filters with a login, but also by switching your country, but this only works if you have a VPN. Somebody suggested that to me over on /q/ for other reasons. Now, Reddit's also suffering from the OSA: - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4ep1znk4zo - https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1lzxrxg/reddits_uk_users_must_now_prove_theyre_18_to_view/

>>48018 Update: The Tumblr archive in question was shut down, as well as their YouTube account. In case you didn't know, here's what started it for me: https://web.archive.org/web/20251207052400/https://www.tumblr.com/isaac-blooms-archives/798602953255747584/isaac-just-posted-sa-art-of-minkie-pie-what-the I know they made a document about the login-auth blocked account (desendingabel.bsky.social) as seen here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qcCUYJhn8chlow03IUm3gcJxbFVWoZbDszVASIw-_ag/edit?tab=t.0 - and upon inputting the account name in https://bskyviewer.github.io/ it worked, but now I kept getting this message: <strong>Error fetching posts</strong> Could not find user: desendingabel.bsky.social Take note there was a whole lot of reblogs regarding that one post but the account well known for that art deleted itself. On another tangent: >>48086 TikTok used to show this on searches and accounts but are now age-gated only on accounts and that's something that needs reverting. Example is in pic for reference.

Another site has been targeted by the UK Online Safety Act: https://cybernews.com/uk/how-to-use-vpn/twitchs-new-face-scan-age-verification-hits-uk-users/ Twitch began enforcing a new age-verification system in the United Kingdom that requires some users to complete a face-scan check before accessing mature content on 15 September 2025. This issue has also reached a wider portion of UK accounts, and had affected mature-tagged games on Twitch streams, Twitch chat participation, 18+ Twitch VODs and clips from Twitch streams. Again, it's in response to increasing pressure created by the UK Online Safety Act and new requirements for platforms hosting potentially harmful or adult content. Many users in the UK have encountered mandatory age-gated prompts and are indeed suffering. This is why I had urged people to combat censorship and the UK Online Safety Act 2023 to be wholly scrapped by the UK government. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Twitch has not mentioned anything to do with this.

>>48344 I know this from some of the thing's I've learned about. One of these is via https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/E621: >"e621 is hosted in Arizona, United States, and is at risk of being impacted by any age-verification laws passed by that state" USA and UK are the only regions I know that have been impacted by any age-verification laws and login blocks, but I want it to be reversed for complete, anonymous browsing, like Twitter/X and Gumroad. GitHub has a lot of issues covering both of these problems.

I'm bumping this so that there is no issue as things are falling out of place

>>48129 It's possible that the reason behind why pyromaniacblujay's BlueSky account had been only accessible to logged in users is because she made mature-tagged art like that of DecendingAbel's (labeled as graphic/gore). Nevertheless, whatever she did to her BlueSky account is wrong and I really want her to revert it - and this happened when I ran the incendiary.bsky.social account in blusky viewer. >>46726 I had forgotten that Taylor McCue's HFTGOOM game was affected by UK Online Safety Act restrictions: https://xcancel.com/TaylorMcCue5/status/1950035089359794635 This also caused her entire itch.io profile to be ruined by the OSA while it was also targeted by itch.io's indexing problems for NSFW content. Here's an issue to compare with. pixelrye.itch.io's account was incorrectly affected by OSA restrictions because there was a possible game on their profile that was NSFW, yet there's nothing I can make of it and it has been incorrectly restricted. Taylor McCue, on the other hand, had HFTGOOM restricted by the OSA, which blew up her profile page as well. This, Google, and other sites being affected by the OSA is the reason why I want people like me to revert censorship, with one of these cases being to thwart the OSA.

Some of the adverts on UK bus lanes contained a QR code that leads to https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk. The VPN site said that censorship had escalated, including the Online Safety Act 2023. This is something that must be stopped, because it had ruined websites such as Google, itch.io, e-hentai.org and many others. I've had enough of sites filtering, age-gating or EVEN banning NSFW material, especially when it came to Tumblr in 2017. This is the very same with login/auth blocks, affecting and restricting guest accessibility, especially on sites such as Tumblr and Twitter: -https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 -https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter_starts_to_require_login_to_view_tweets/ -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks Image unrelated?

Also another mention of the UK blocks: https://lainchan.org/r/res/48659.html

Time and time again, I had been improving my list of login/auth blocks issues and how you can help. Other people, such as those that tackle mislabelling material as censorship (https://archive.is/Td5NY) or rejected by an organization responsible for approving all adverts and ensuring they comply with the rules set by the authorities (https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk). Most of the links I've found are aimed at NSFW content and the UK's Online Safety Act. Due to a 'too many links flooding' error, this list is split into a few parts. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: -https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 -https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter_starts_to_require_login_to_view_tweets/ Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to a global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Please note that this does not apply to a blacklist anybody that can customise themselves. Steam: Examples: -https://web.archive.org/web/20191101000000*/https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/260330/ -https://steamcommunity.com/id/greenthermite/screenshots/?appid=420110&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall -https://store.steampowered.com/app/2293660/ -https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2664821140 - -https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ Please note that this is the only forum post I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store. Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (this post had been NSFW-blocked) Their issue with the UK's Online Safety Act is covered by Yoti. Tumblr: -https://web.archive.org/web/20181216040913/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012260613-November-16-2018-Issues-with-the-iOS-app -https://web.archive.org/web/20181231211747/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20220203015805/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content - -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 (thanks to PixelJail for the discovery) Itch.io (thanks to some anons on Lainchan for the discovery, as seen in https://lainchan.org/r/res/44024.html#q46603): A prime example for all archived versions of the message that you get if you wanted to view an 18+ game on itch.io can be found within https://web.archive.org/web/20231101000000*/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis - -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-apologise-for-frustration-and-confusion-after-delisting-thousands-of-nsfw-projects -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 -https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content -https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/itch-io-is-restoring-some-nsfw-content/ -https://bsky.app/profile/sjklapecki.itch.io/post/3lwc6nzwggs2l -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchios-mass-delisting-of-paid-adult-content-has-also-affected-safe-for-work-games-with-yuri-or-lesbian-themes-devs-claim

My list of links, continued from >>48143 Itch.io: -https://itch.io/t/5133739/our-update-on-the-uk-online-safety-act -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/we-believe-these-restrictions-harm-creative-expression-the-reaction-to-the-uks-online-safety-act Both itch.io and Steam: -https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-processors -https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/no_mercy Both of these links was what both itch.io and Steam had to go through. -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/whats-going-on-with-steam-and-itchios-crackdown-on-adult-content Imgur: -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/31844016762779-Explicit-content-on-Imgur -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom Google (OSA-related): https://www.google.com/search?q=safesearch+local+laws&sca_esv=3aa6d84c464b4bf8&source=hp&ei=DfX_aNPRLo-uhbIPn9CquQk&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaQADHbs7Qbx29YZOMyW-WjcW2r-zcPXd&ved=0ahUKEwiTjOXHucWQAxUPV0EAHR-oKpcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=safesearch+local+laws&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz TikTok: https://www.facebook.com/rickbeldenpoet/videos/i-discovered-yesterday-that-tiktok-is-restricting-visibility-of-this-video-and-r/1527258135154898/ e-hentai (OSA message): https://e-hentai.org/ (only happens if your country is set to UK) Twitch: https://cybernews.com/uk/how-to-use-vpn/twitchs-new-face-scan-age-verification-hits-uk-users/ Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts): https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

I'm bumping this again until the thread may be at it's bump limit

just bumping again for testing

>>48344 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_laws_in_the_United_States Looks like Vermont, Colorado and California are the last states where you can legally host a website that has any pornographic/mature content without having to implement age verification asking for ID or biometric data. However for California that's only until 2027 because SB 976 (Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act) still has age verification provisions that could be enacted if not successfully challenged on that effective date: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SB_976

>>48879 Alrighty. Unfortunately, I'm British, and I've been getting sick and tired of the geo-restrictions on Imgur and the UK Online Safety Act affecting sites such as itch.io, Google and Twitch. I had enough of sites impacted by any age-verification laws and login blocks and that's why I want it to be reversed for complete, anonymous browsing. GitHub has a lot of issues covering both of these problems, and so does YCombinator.

NaughtyNiche has been geo-restricted in the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act: https://naughtyniche.art/shop/pixeljail/ Same with SubscribeStar Adult: https://subscribestar.adult/age_confirmation_warning Getting sick and tired of the OSA that it MUST be stopped >:(

>>48895 Yeah, I am at my wit's end with the restrictions on NSFW material and the UK's OSA ruining the future of the internet. Although we are over 18 years old, this does not mean the internet's accessibility to view some content had been tampered with. I had constantly objected to censorship too much that it had crippled the way I use the internet (in contrast to other people's). I've seen this with a couple of things. One of these was attempting to tackle mislabelling material as censorship: - https://archive.is/Td5NY - https://archive.is/pF6rj - https://archive.is/1KCkf Another was rejected by an organization responsible for approving all adverts and ensuring they comply with the rules set by the authorities (https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk). I also found this through baraag.net, which is still working despite the problems that NSFW material had been facing for far too long: https://anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNAdVCogC14dinW4OCnzNX1JkhJdTmUIStzvSROChjo/edit?tab=t.0 >>47321 >>47739 MediaLab (who owns Imgur) got fined by ICO a couple of months ago, just as they feared. If that's the case, then why is Imgur not restoring access to UK users when they really should? They got fined, at least they should lift the geo-restrictions to people in the UK.

>>48895 >>48897 If you could remember the old thread, PixelJail made a lot of posts in regards to their first animation they uploaded to Newgrounds via baragg.net a couple of years back. To recap, PixelJail (who lives in Edinburgh, UK) said via https://naughtyniche.art/product/bb1/ (the site has a age-confirmation javascript issue but now hit with geo-restrictions in the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act): >"The animation [i][in question]/i] is completely free to watch online in full" Reference in image (spoilered so that it is compliant with Lainchan's rules). While they posted stills of this via baraag.net and linked the account that would lead to the video on Newgrounds in each, PixelJail posted this: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/110182311525990839 This contained a link to the video via https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/879987. PixelJail said the animation is completely free to watch online, but it had been blocked by the site's brute-forced "login to view" messages just as I had suspected. From https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 the actual URLs are not behind a login, only the portal page, and I wanted it accessible because, like I had said before, I am at my wit's end with the restrictions on NSFW material and the UK's OSA ruining the future of the internet. Here is a commit: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/commit/a53cfc845e12d9e98fefd07e43ebffaec488c18f

>>48914 Continuing from previous post. https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 had been recently closed, however, this is not going to solve the issue here. Plenty of A-rated material on Newgrounds have been affected by login/auth blocks, like so many other sites before the UK Online Safety Act crushed any hopes in archiving NSFW/adult material, as well as other local laws. The old thread I was mentioning was my first login/auth blocks thread within this very board. PixelJail mentioned that their first animation [was] completely free to watch online in full when I know full well guests cannot, and I wanted guest accessibility restored for scraping the video into an archive, like with all other media. Reference in image (spoilered so that it is compliant with Lainchan's rules because of some text). I want Tumblr to unban all NSFW content, unblock tag searches and unblock anon asks for guests. Yes, I am autistic but the site's staff must at least allow NSFW content for ever in my personal opinion and never lay a god-awful finger to blogs sharing sexually explicit content, but get rid of the spambots. I am at my wit's end in regards to all of this.

>>48917 I do care about Bluesky unblocking NSFW content but this post I've found on Tumlook makes it clear that I want Tumblr to unban all NSFW content and unblock guest accessibility for tag searches and anon asks. The site's blocking/banning of NSFW material on 2017/2018 is, in my opinion, the root cause of NSFW content blocks. Also, PixelJail was one of the many people that came in the Visa/MasterCard crossfire of July 2025: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/114954640868259828 They said: >"Show me receipts or call logs of your efforts to #SAVESPEECH and get commissions, discounts or coupons to my [NaughtyNiche/Gumroad] art store. >"Join the cause and bring more NSFW art into the world where it belongs." The latter's what I really want here as I am at my wit's end in regards to all of this. (yeah i mentioned gumroad because they also need to reallow NSFW content lol)

>>48917 >"[i]github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 had been recently closed"[/i] https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 was closed in June 2025, and still does not solve the issue in regards to NSFW content blocks on Newgrounds. https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/3688 said >"seems like the login gate is up once again, along with several other changes" This example comes from their extractor test results: > python .\test\test_results.py newgrounds <strong>https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/kekiiro/red</strong> <strong>Should NEVER use any login/auth blocks to view and enable download URLs for A-rated content</strong> https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595355 . https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/609768 . https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/161181/format/flash . https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/758545 . <strong>https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/717744</strong> <strong>Should NEVER use any login/auth blocks to view and enable download URLs for A-rated content</strong> This is proof if people want to scrape NSFW material, sites (such as Newgrounds) should not block NSFW content from guests.

>>48976 What a coincedence. I was going to post some news on this very topic of VPNs from my land too, but, apparently, the the Western Calculus is about to get into trouble too.

American AI chatbots will require mandatory ID verification after the passing of this bipartisan bill https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bill-banning-ai-companions-kids-155110424.html https://www.engadget.com/2161370/senate-judiciary-committee-unanimously-approves-ai-chatbot-age-verification/ https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GUARD-Act-Bill-Text.pdf Big Tech has no reason to lobby against this because they would too would love to data-mine individuals accurately.

>>48995 I wanted to point out that it was my theory this was their goal and the whole "protect the children" pretext is just that. They are scared of what they cannot control, but i dont think they actually can and my theory is there are already rogue ais out there and have been for a long time, now they hope to clean up. I just dont see any of this happening, even if ais themselfs are driving this and im not talking about llms. This will end up a disaster and lawmakers are ignorant old men who are at the mercy of technocrats with no ethics and just plain crazy. It wouldnt suprise me if alternative networks will pop up. Also how would this affect countries like china who we all know what they do, i can imagine they will not be happy about this. With the way things are in the states and europe, i cant see how they can maintain this, but this is all speculative. fuarrrk the whole lot of these control freaks, but i can see why they would push for this.

Bumping the thread as always because this is important.

>>48997 It's deeper than that. Every single wedge issue you hear about online -trump, trans, AI, even blm towards the end - has been part of a divide and conquer strategy to rape the EFF's political coalition so that this exact legislation can be forced through. Remember that they've been trying to do this since the 1990s but didn't have the political mandate to do so, now they do. How did we give them that mandate? By bickering over trannies which allowed them to shoehorn "protect the children" into the law.

>>49028 By that logic US democrats and EU shouldn't be pushing for age verification yet they are. The political mandate is given by normal people/sheeple who never cared about privacy. Those who care about privacy have always been a small minority.

>>49032 >By that logic democrats shouldn't be pushing for censorship yet they are Why shouldn't they? You need to recognize that people will superficially endorse contradictory views and party lines while agreeing on different fundamentals, in this case a significant proportion of both Republicans and Democrats want to censor the internet. For the Democrats, it's "protect trans kids from harmful online influences". For the Republicans, it's "protect white kids from harmful online influences". Do you see it yet?

Shocker, found that the image in https://bsky.app/profile/incendiary.bsky.social/post/3mm2vg2bma22f was author-flagged as "graphic media". Yeah, it's the very same account I've mentioned in post >>48129 and clearly should not be censored in any way. >>48886 Speaking of Imgur, ArchiveTeam hadn't logged the site's UK geo-block, which should have been reverted after ICO fined MediaLab. >>44698 If you hadn't noticed, Piped had been upgraded, therefore the bot issues were fixed.

>>48976 >>48978 >>48995 >>48997 >>49028 >>49032 >>49039 Found out that a conversation is going around about the same things via /tech/: https://lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/91606.html >>49069 >Found that the image in bsky.app/profile/incendiary.bsky.social/post/3mm2vg2bma22f was author-flagged as "graphic media" That wasn't graphic enough to be double-checked by the author or the site mods, since I had found it on their YouTube account's posts.

>>46722 >>46726 Concerning pixelrye.itch.io, I found that they make NSFW content on their Twitter and, where it should have been, Tumblr, of all things: https://ynfg.yume.wiki/Rye_Raccoon While the user had made SFW Yume Nikki fangames with animal characters, the profile page for them has been restricted by UK's OSA/Ofcom, like Taylor McCue's HFTGOOM game: https://xcancel.com/TaylorMcCue5/status/1950035089359794635 This meant that the OSA blew up her profile page as well, see attached picture. pixelrye.itch.io's account was incorrectly affected by OSA restrictions because there was a possible game on their profile that was NSFW, yet there's nothing I can make of it. I've checked their Tumblr for more information on whatever date the restrictions were misplaced, but I couldn't find anything there about the OSA, nor their Twitter account. Taylor, on the other hand, said this came into affect on 29 July 2025.

>>46384 MOverERR's reupload of the Dead God replacement sprites (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3508002325) were affected recently, meaning that almost EVERYTHING to do with LMJ's Beast mod had been affected by content warnings and isn't visible on the workshop/NSFW auth-blocked. I've never been so angry in my life in regards to the UK Online Safety Act, Tumblr, itch.io, Newgrounds, Steam and more that block/censor NSFW/adult content, and I want all of them to be outlawed. These restrictions are not just ruining the internet. I cared about accessibility on certain sites and I still do. This is why I have been on my wit's end and I had constantly objected to censorship too much that it had crippled the way I use the internet (in contrast to other people's), and although we are over 18 years old, this does not mean the internet's accessibility to view some content had been tampered with. This also includes some accounts being restricted to logged-in users only as well as searching on Tumblr and Twitter/X. We all had been facing these problems for far too long, including myself. I had enough of sites impacted by any age-verification laws and login blocks and that's why I want it to be reversed for complete, anonymous browsing.

>>49087 This is the same thing with a TBoI NSFW mod (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3586999274) on https://steamcommunity.com/id/natvolk/screenshots as it isn't visible on the workshop due to it being NSFW auth-blocked. Found it here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2603594659 Some of the mods were reuploaded, possibly because of the Collective Shout takedowns.

>>48483 >I had forgotten that Taylor McCue's HFTGOOM game was affected by UK Online Safety Act restrictions Correction: I had remembered that Taylor McCue's HFTGOOM game - as well as her entire profile - was affected by UK Online Safety Act restrictions on itch.io, and she had posted it to her BlueSky, Mastodon and Twitter accounts. - Time and time again, I had been improving my list of login/auth blocks issues and how you can help. Other people, such as those that tackle mislabelling material as censorship (https://archive.is/Td5NY) or rejected by an organization responsible for approving all adverts and ensuring they comply with the rules set by the authorities (https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk). Most of the links I've found are aimed at NSFW content and the UK's Online Safety Act. Due to a 'too many links flooding' error, this list is split into a few parts. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: -https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 -https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter_starts_to_require_login_to_view_tweets/ Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to a global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Please note that this does not apply to a blacklist anybody that can customise themselves. Steam: -https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ Please note that this is the only forum post I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store. Examples: -https://web.archive.org/web/20191101000000*/https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/260330/ -https://steamcommunity.com/id/greenthermite/screenshots/?appid=420110&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall -https://store.steampowered.com/app/2293660/ -https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2664821140 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3586999274 Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (this post had been NSFW-blocked) Their issue with the UK's Online Safety Act is covered by Yoti. Tumblr: -https://web.archive.org/web/20181216040913/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012260613-November-16-2018-Issues-with-the-iOS-app -https://web.archive.org/web/20181231211747/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20220203015805/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content - -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 More in the next post.

My list of links, continued from >>49099 I forgotten about adding https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/110182311525990839 and https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/879987 as examples for Newgrounds. I hope it's acceptable! Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 (thanks to PixelJail for the discovery) Itch.io (thanks to some anons on Lainchan for the discovery, as seen in https://lainchan.org/r/res/44024.html#q46603): -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-apologise-for-frustration-and-confusion-after-delisting-thousands-of-nsfw-projects -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 -https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content -https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/itch-io-is-restoring-some-nsfw-content/ -https://bsky.app/profile/sjklapecki.itch.io/post/3lwc6nzwggs2l -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchios-mass-delisting-of-paid-adult-content-has-also-affected-safe-for-work-games-with-yuri-or-lesbian-themes-devs-claim -https://itch.io/t/5133739/our-update-on-the-uk-online-safety-act -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/we-believe-these-restrictions-harm-creative-expression-the-reaction-to-the-uks-online-safety-act - A prime example for all archived versions of the message that you get if you wanted to view an 18+ game on itch.io can be found within https://web.archive.org/web/20231101000000*/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis Both itch.io and Steam: -https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-processors -https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/no_mercy [/i] [i]Both of these links was what both itch.io and Steam had to go through. [/i] [i]-https://www.gamesindustry.biz/whats-going-on-with-steam-and-itchios-crackdown-on-adult-content Imgur: -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/31844016762779-Explicit-content-on-Imgur -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom (keep in mind that this was because MediaLab (who owns Imgur) was about to be fined by ICO which caused Imgur to add geo-restrictions to people in the UK, not the OSA) Google (OSA-related): https://www.google.com/search?q=safesearch+local+laws&sca_esv=3aa6d84c464b4bf8&source=hp&ei=DfX_aNPRLo-uhbIPn9CquQk&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaQADHbs7Qbx29YZOMyW-WjcW2r-zcPXd&ved=0ahUKEwiTjOXHucWQAxUPV0EAHR-oKpcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=safesearch+local+laws&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhVzYWZlc2VhcmNoIGxvY2FsIGxhd3MyBRAhGKABSLhnUABYkWRwAngAkAEBmAGYAqABsROqAQY2LjEwLjO4AQPIAQD4AQGYAhSgAs0VqAIKwgIREC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwHCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBjRAxjHAcICChAAGAMY6gIYjwHCAgoQLhgDGOoCGI8BwgIFEAAYgATCAg4QLhiABBixAxiDARiKBcICBRAuGIAEwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICCxAuGIAEGLEDGNQCwgIGEAAYFhgewgILEAAYgAQYhgMYigXCAggQABiiBBiJBcICBRAAGO8FwgIIEAAYgAQYogTCAgcQIRigARgKwgIFECEYkgPCAgUQIRifBZgDCfEFEidfMBBZIpWSBwY1LjExLjSgB5CRAbIHBjMuMTEuNLgHtxXCBwswLjEuMi45LjcuMcgH6wI&sclient=gws-wiz Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+birds+analog+horror&sca_esv=88a22a1789578c76&source=hp&ei=GK1waZHIKNidhbIP8tq84AY&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaXC7KLcELKZKi-IXdNuwnnbEGttfPfBF&oq=hollow+bi&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Iglob2xsb3cgYmkqAggDMgUQABiABDILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwEyDxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGAoYCzIFEAAYgAQyBxAuGIAEGAoyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIHEAAYgAQYCjIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAESO9RUABYzylwAHgAkAEAmAHFCaABnCCqAQswLjUuNS0yLjAuMrgBAcgBAPgBAZgCCaAC_iLCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIFEC4YgATCAg4QLhiABBjHARiOBRivAcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAhEQLhiABBixAxjHARiOBRivAZgDAJIHDzAuNC4xLjAuMS4xLjAuMqAH8n2yBw8wLjQuMS4wLjEuMS4wLjK4B_4iwgcFMy0xLjjIB-sBgAgA&sclient=gws-wiz TikTok: https://www.facebook.com/rickbeldenpoet/videos/i-discovered-yesterday-that-tiktok-is-restricting-visibility-of-this-video-and-r/1527258135154898/ e-hentai (OSA message): https://e-hentai.org/ (only happens if your country is set to UK) Twitch: https://cybernews.com/uk/how-to-use-vpn/twitchs-new-face-scan-age-verification-hits-uk-users/ NaughtyNiche (now affected by OSA): https://naughtyniche.art/product/bb1/ SubscribeStar (Adult) (also affected by OSA): https://subscribestar.adult/age_confirmation_warning Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts): https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run; however, I do not know what happened to some NSFW Tumblr accounts in 2023.

Thought I would drop in with extra info. In 2019, I had found out that SomethingAwful forums bought up a "login to continue" message page with a very loud video attached, instead of various information. Before that happened, SomethingAwful forums was kind of... accessible to guests? I ought to know what was going on as this forum site scared(?) me. Anybody here got this particular "login to continue" page from SomethingAwful forums? If so, please give me a screencap and URL in your post. Thanks. Pic attached, sorry for the blur

>>49177 Yes, it's this (since nobody found this particular page I had to do it myself): https://web.archive.org/web/20190605005055/https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php It's actually a paywall, and by checking the view-source: code via Chrome, there was an extremely loud video going by the name of Boogeyman-494.mp4. For reference: https://xcancel.com/iscythea/status/951643562793455616 https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-something-awful-forums-just-go-pay-to-read/489704 Image related

Found this petition in regards to Imgur's UK geo-block: https://www.change.org/p/imgur-unblock-the-uk-and-agree-to-comply-with-the-ongoing-privacy-investigation https://mashable.com/article/age-verification-is-going-to-destroy-the-entire-internet https://mashable.com/article/pornhub-to-comply-with-uk-ofcom-age-verification-law The OSA has introduced broad age verification requirements that force UK citizens to provide proof of age to access even mainstream platforms like YouTube and Spotify. The law, billed as protecting children from "harmful" content like pornography, has instead drawn fire from critics who argue it undermines privacy, restricts access, and effectively walls off parts of the internet. https://mashable.com/article/4chan-kiwi-farms-sue-uk-over-online-safety-act https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-safe-mode https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-ios-app-removed-child-pornography https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-adult-content-ban Tumblr is what caused the whole censorship hell

Are there any UK political parties saying they'd repeal Online Safety Act?

>>49187 None ATM. - >>48130 There had been instances of pyromaniacblujay/jayluxuosus locking accounts since I put that on my previous thread, beginning on 14 December 2024, and she is still doing this. There's a possible reason for that. https://en.pronouns.page/u/jayluxuosus pyromaniacblujay had uploaded NSFW/adult content on her social media accounts (except Tumblr, a site that caused the whole censorship hell and still has not reverted their ban on NSFW content) and privatised them for a short while. While most of pyromaniacblujay's accounts were accessible to everyone after that, only her BlueSky account is still affected by the !no-unauthenticated flag, and I want her to stop doing that. Example: https://bsky.app/profile/incendiary.bsky.social/post/3lvnws7ggik2m (https://bsky.app/profile/pyromaniacblujay.bsky.social) She made a NSFW account on Twitter and privatised it: https://xcancel.com/pistonpump Setting an online social media account to a login-blocked state is wrong and I won't tolerate it at all, even with NSFW accounts. I am still fuming at pyromaniacblujay for how she still privatised her accounts if I value the art she makes so well, and I've had enough of this garbage. pyromaniacblujay's BlueSky account should never be login-auth blocked, not even her NSFW Twitter account.

>nitter.net/ukhomeoffice/status/2063976128692273615 UK is the North Korea of Europe.

>>49213 Somebody had said that they are not doing this "for the children" and I care deeply about the fact that it's a huge censorship loophole that cannot go on. This is the same with Steam, BlueSky and Google as I want them to ditch filtering and tagging systems for NSFW content, since I have been at my wits' end at all this, the same with login walls such as Tumblr and Twitter. In regards to NSFW material, I'm not the only one who thinks this is a huge censorship loophole, or isn't because of child protection tools. Other people have been objecting to this problem as well as the Online Safety Act, as all these factors are ruining the internet. Imgur shouldn't have derezzed NSFW content, and as for the ICO investigation, they should have unblocked geo-restrictions for UK users. Tumblr, as I had said so many times in the past, should allow NSFW content in the future, because their Safe Mode in 2017 was the actual issue and not their problems with their iOS app. I don't want censorship to get even worse than this anymore. The internet should've been built for complete, anonymous browsing and never this abomination.

>>49214 >>49213 this has nothing to do with the children, it never was. besides, consider the fact it is the epstein-class who want control, they're not doing it for childrens' benefit. however let's look at the silver lining: antagonize people, act in overt power-grabby and antisocial ways, it will cause some of the populous to sit up and *react*. they're interfering with our circuses (if nothing else), and bread is becoming difficult to obtain. the results.... it isn't enough for us to sit by and let it happen to us, the people who can, MUST act.

>>49215 well some of the reaction is just small stupid carve outs. If you let the most angry people get around it, the majority might duck their heads and go along. Eventually the country might fall apart but it will be a mess till then

>>49216 >>49216 >>49216 The goal is and must be total collapse. By a single death blow or 100,000 papercuts matters not. When every niche becomes another sanitized clone, when everything is a glowie, when there is no exit: that's when exit becomes inevitable.

>>49215 >>44383 Remember that over18? section of Reddit? https://old.reddit.com/over18?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FClopClop%2Fcomments%2F13bo02%2Fhoof_beat_2_coming_soon%2Fc72pn6i They had changed the over18? code to age/provide? , as seen in this example: https://old.reddit.com/age/provide?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FAmItheAsshole%2Fcomments%2Fomnpw0%2Faita_for_wanting_to_send_my_father_to_jail%2F The over18? code is historical, and while I'm not sure where it can be toggled, it's preserved in Reddit's memory forever. This, however, does not. It sets up a NSFW material auth block, same QR, but shares the newer interface, even if the old.reddit.com link is used. Pic attached. I had enough of sites impacted by any age-verification laws and login blocks and that's why I want it to be reversed for complete, anonymous browsing. Seems relatable here: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1lzxrxg/reddits_uk_users_must_now_prove_theyre_18_to_view/ >>49215 Truth be told, the whole thing regarding login/auth blocks and NSFW content blocks is insane.

>>49221 >Pic attached Sorry I forgotten, yet again. I am at my wit's end.

>>49222 Which laptop do you have? Was going to suggest upgrading to LTSB 2016 (if HDD) or LTSC 2021 (if SSD and 8GB+ RAM), but if your GPU is Intel GMA or Mobility Radeon then don't bother.

Like I've said, I'm not the only one who wants to act against censorship: https://www.tumlook.com/h0rnyh0rr0rs/post/816085989741166592 Few pointers of note are that - If a site insists on changing things, at least try to for the better, eg. better censorship for Tumblr instead of the NSFW ban in late 2018 - Age verification helps nobody, especially if the person using sites as a guest - Anything like these topics are completely unnecessary So, yeah, I found someone who's acting on the censorship issues, all the while XCancel - a site that I use for Twitter - doesn't have a global blacklist on NSFW tags: - https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23nsfw - https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23nsfwtwt https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/829#issuecomment-1509754511 said "Twitter blocks certain searches, including that hashtag", but XCancel unblocked it, possibly because it was another censorship issue? Going in circles here.

>>48976 >>49213 Found out that the UK is going to ban VPNs: https://xcancel.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2067325410728173573#m One user replied that >"All of this is very dangerous, people will learn and find ways to circumvent this draconian measure, this overstep. This blatent move toward digital ID." This is wrong, continuing the huge censorship loophole - and I'm not the only one who thinks this through, or isn't because of child protection tools. Other people have been objecting to this problem as well as the Online Safety Act, as all these factors are ruining the internet. This is what I mean. The internet should've been built for complete, anonymous browsing and never this abomination, and everybody (including me) is going to object to censorship. This is why everybody's freaking out, and I don't want censorship to get even worse than this anymore, full stop.

>>49270 As much as the paranoid side of me wants to believe this is a crackdown to make a police surveillance state, there's a side of me that thinks this is literally old rich men in parliament knowing absolutely nothing and being far more incompetent than we think. Are there details on how they are going to implement this ban or what they consider a VPN to be?

>>49274 > knowing absolutely nothing and being far more incompetent than we think Have you seen the state of VPNs in China and russia? They've been doing DPI for decades and gone through many-many rounds of cat-and-mice game of people overcoming restrictions by masking VPN traffic as TLS. Check this article: https://habr.com/en/articles/990144/

Tumlook is breaking up, like it keeps bringing up 500 errors like they did with Tumbig. https://www.tumlook.com/contact

>>49284 From what I've seen, Tumlook is giving me problems whenever I'm browsing, aside from some sort of constant loop. Blogs I've tested: - www.tumlook.com/ladylaflechesteahouse = 500 - AN ERROR OCCURRED; Please try again later - www.tumlook.com/hitennotrurouni = puts up a batch of posts but doesn't load older ones - www.tumlook.com/liquidjar = 500 - AN ERROR OCCURRED; Please try again later - www.tumlook.com/abyssalgrey = puts up two batches of posts but doesn't load older ones - www.tumlook.com/melodythebunny = 500 - AN ERROR OCCURRED; Please try again later www.tumlook.com/rinstumblertrashbin = keeps showing up a recent post they made on 18.6.2026 that "anon questions [were] disabled" (possibly intentional?) The same thing happens with default and tag-based searches: - www.tumlook.com/tag/dulydownward = 500 - AN ERROR OCCURRED; Please try again later - www.tumlook.com/search/dulydownward = ERROR; No search results found! / Blogs; Something went wrong / Tags; Something went wrong This has been going on as of recent, as what should happen is I expect blogs/searches to run normally. Tumbig (www.tumbig.com) had given me a flat-out message with error 500: This page isn’t working www.tumbig.com is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500 Reloading the page, no matter how, does nothing. This needs to be fixed by their site's owners. >>48129 > "[Tumgik] would show up images but now it never shows them and gives me "403 Forbidden/nginx" errors" They fixed it now, but images from that branch break, meaning that you would need to use Tumblr to scrape the actual images.

>>49322 When I saw www.tumlook.com/rinstumblertrashbin it actually keeps showing up a post they made on 18.6.2026 that "anon questions [were] disabled" first, not any new posts. - When I attempted to put this private YouTube URL (www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXTObwNYvWs) in both TurboScribe and Nevercap.AI they both gave me "video unavailable" messages and I do not know what other online scrapers work with private videos on the site. Anyway, how I scraped the URL in question was just like in post >>47862 but Piped is also suffering from a bug with age-restricted videos: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/4140 Piped should play age-restricted videos as the readme says that there is "No age restriction". I've been trying to get www.tumlook.com/tag/isaacbloomsarchives to work normally, but it's like the previous instance: 500 - AN ERROR OCCURRED; Please try again later . This even happens after a CloudFlare widget refresh. www.tumlook.com/ladylaflechesteahouse now works, the error 500 issue it kept getting was fixed after a while, but the blog having the same issue other working Tumblr blogs have - puts up two batches of posts but doesn't load older ones. This should need a fix, which was why I popped the contact link to Tumlook in my earlier post. I also had been over and over again at Tumblr’s repeated mistake of banning adult content abruptly, which reflects a failure to treat its community. The 2018 adult content ban on the site was caused by the site implementing Safe Mode in 2017-2018. Remeber that in https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/829#issuecomment-1509754511 zedeus said "Twitter blocks certain searches, including the #nsfw hashtag"? Tumlook unblocks it, but Tumgik does not. Examples: - https://www.tumgik.com/tag/sex - https://www.tumgik.com/tag/tumblr%20nsfw - https://www.tumgik.com/tag/adult This is what I mean. I want blogs that share content containing visual depictions of sexually explicit acts to be wholly re-allowed on Tumblr and never terminate them because it is wrong for the site in so many ways: https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/mature-nsfw-content/ This should be https://web.archive.org/web/20170327222334/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content and needs to stick. ARGH

Time and time again, I had been improving my list of login/auth blocks issues and how you can help. Other people, such as those that tackle mislabelling material as censorship (https://archive.is/Td5NY) or rejected by an organization responsible for approving all adverts and ensuring they comply with the rules set by the authorities (https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk). Most of the links I've found are aimed at NSFW content and the UK's Online Safety Act. Due to a 'too many links flooding' error, this list is split into a few parts, since I had updated the list often. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ [/i]- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: [i]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: -https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 -https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter_starts_to_require_login_to_view_tweets/ Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to a global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Please note that this does not apply to a blacklist anybody that can customise themselves. Steam: -https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ Please note that this is the only forum post I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store. Examples: -https://web.archive.org/web/20191101000000*/https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/260330/ -https://steamcommunity.com/id/greenthermite/screenshots/?appid=420110&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall -https://store.steampowered.com/app/2293660/ -https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2664821140 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3586999274 Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (this post had been NSFW-blocked) Their issue with the UK's Online Safety Act is covered by Yoti. Tumblr: -https://web.archive.org/web/20170327222334/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20181216040913/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012260613-November-16-2018-Issues-with-the-iOS-app -https://web.archive.org/web/20181231211747/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20220203015805/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/mature-nsfw-content/ - -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) More in the next post.

My list of links, continued from >>49326 I forgotten about adding https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/110182311525990839 and https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/879987 as examples for Newgrounds... again. Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Example: https://old.reddit.com/over18?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FClopClop%2Fcomments%2F13bo02%2Fhoof_beat_2_coming_soon%2Fc72pn6i Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 (thanks to PixelJail for the discovery) Itch.io (thanks to some anons on Lainchan for the discovery, as seen in https://lainchan.org/r/res/44024.html#q46603): -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-apologise-for-frustration-and-confusion-after-delisting-thousands-of-nsfw-projects -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 -https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content -https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/itch-io-is-restoring-some-nsfw-content/ -https://bsky.app/profile/sjklapecki.itch.io/post/3lwc6nzwggs2l -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchios-mass-delisting-of-paid-adult-content-has-also-affected-safe-for-work-games-with-yuri-or-lesbian-themes-devs-claim -https://itch.io/t/5133739/our-update-on-the-uk-online-safety-act -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/we-believe-these-restrictions-harm-creative-expression-the-reaction-to-the-uks-online-safety-act - A prime example for all archived versions of the message that you get if you wanted to view an 18+ game on itch.io can be found within https://web.archive.org/web/20231101000000*/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis Both itch.io and Steam: -https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-processors -https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/no_mercy [/i] Both of these links was what both itch.io and Steam had to go through. -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/whats-going-on-with-steam-and-itchios-crackdown-on-adult-content Imgur: -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/31844016762779-Explicit-content-on-Imgur -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom (keep in mind that this was because MediaLab (who owns Imgur) was about to be fined by ICO which caused Imgur to add geo-restrictions to people in the UK, not the OSA) Google SafeSearch (OSA-related): https://www.google.com/search?q=safesearch+local+laws&sca_esv=3aa6d84c464b4bf8&source=hp&ei=DfX_aNPRLo-uhbIPn9CquQk&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaQADHbs7Qbx29YZOMyW-WjcW2r-zcPXd&ved=0ahUKEwiTjOXHucWQAxUPV0EAHR-oKpcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=safesearch+local+laws&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+birds+analog+horror&sca_esv=88a22a1789578c76&source=hp&ei=GK1waZHIKNidhbIP8tq84AY&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaXC7KLcELKZKi-IXdNuwnnbEGttfPfBF&oq=hollow+bi&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Iglob2xsb3cgYmkqAggDMgUQABiABDILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwEyDxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGAoYCzIFEAAYgAQyBxAuGIAEGAoyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIHEAAYgAQYCjIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAESO9RUABYzylwAHgAkAEAmAHFCaABnCCqAQswLjUuNS0yLjAuMrgBAcgBAPgBAZgCCaAC_iLCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIFEC4YgATCAg4QLhiABBjHARiOBRivAcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAhEQLhiABBixAxjHARiOBRivAZgDAJIHDzAuNC4xLjAuMS4xLjAuMqAH8n2yBw8wLjQuMS4wLjEuMS4wLjK4B_4iwgcFMy0xLjjIB-sBgAgA&sclient=gws-wiz TikTok: https://www.facebook.com/rickbeldenpoet/videos/i-discovered-yesterday-that-tiktok-is-restricting-visibility-of-this-video-and-r/1527258135154898/ e-hentai (OSA message): https://e-hentai.org/ (only happens if your country is set to UK) Twitch: https://cybernews.com/uk/how-to-use-vpn/twitchs-new-face-scan-age-verification-hits-uk-users/ NaughtyNiche (affected by OSA): https://naughtyniche.art/product/bb1/ SubscribeStar (Adult) (affected by OSA): https://subscribestar.adult/age_confirmation_warning Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts): https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run.

>>49326 shortlinking, even when archive.is explicitly has a long link option stopped reading there, lul

Looks like the US is getting their own Online Safety Act. Senate is on recess for a couple weeks and may pass it.

Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com/ Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect "over the next month," a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to "tighten how automated systems access Reddit."

>>49362 OH NO NO NO NO Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of accessiblity. If they start requiring everyone to log in, this change will be abusive. I just can't take it ANYMORE with this. - >>49322 Tumlook is fixed, so tags, searches and blogs getting error 500 have been fixed. > "[i]www.tumlook.com/rinstumblertrashbin keeps showing up a recent post they made on 18.6.2026 that "anon questions [were] disabled" (possibly intentional?)"[/i] That was actually a pinned post. But going back, THE FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET IS DYING FAST HOW ARE WE GOING TO PUT IT BACK NO LOGIN TO ACCESS NO NSFW BLOCKS A HUNDRED PERCENT FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET NO IT KEEPS JUST GETTING WORSE AND W O R S E PLEASE HELP

>>49363 well, start archiving the soykaf you need because it's not a question of "if" and some countries already have the block in place.

Got this email about an hour ago.

>>49365 there's your hint you should never have accounts on these websites.

>>49366 More like, "you should not live in EU". Or maybe both. But in US they passed something related yesterday so it's becoming very fuarrrked up too.

xitter started mass blocking people

>>49367 >>49369 This soykaf is honestly such a fuarrrking bummer. The internet is visibly getting worse and being cut apart by big tech and big government because they're scared that the proles are going to stop believing their bullshit, and it doesn't seem like there's any way for the guy on the street who just wants to browse imageboards in peace to stop it because every political party on both sides of the aisle in every Western country is pushing for this, completely inorganically, and essentially with the same stated end goal of completely removing anominity from the internet so you can be arrested for wrongthink anywhere, like what has been happening in the UK. The Western World is about to have worse freedom of speech than fuarrrking China. Is this what 100-something years of conflict between democracy and totalitarianism has led to? Liberal democracies becoming open-air prisons because the ones in charge can't handle people forming a heterodox opinion?

>>49367 Funny how they pretend to care about big tech

>>49376 I wholly agree that we are losing anonymity from the internet, however people like me are against the possibility of that happening. Age verification, login redirects and local laws have ruined the state of the internet. From https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ the author of that thread said "anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content". This, alongside login walls, had affected the mainstream internet and must be cut down. Like what happened with Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks -https://web.archive.org/web/20170327222334/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20181216040913/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012260613-November-16-2018-Issues-with-the-iOS-app -https://web.archive.org/web/20181231211747/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20220203015805/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/mature-nsfw-content/ -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge This is pretty much the same here with a NSFW-blocked Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (the image attached comes from this one thread) It should have never given guests a login wall over the fact that NSFW content was allowed to be viewed as a guest, same with how Google's SafeSearch has been ruined by the UK's Online Safety Act: https://www.google.com/search?q=safesearch+local+laws&sca_esv=3aa6d84c464b4bf8&source=hp&ei=DfX_aNPRLo-uhbIPn9CquQk&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaQADHbs7Qbx29YZOMyW-WjcW2r-zcPXd&ved=0ahUKEwiTjOXHucWQAxUPV0EAHR-oKpcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=safesearch+local+laws&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz [/i] [i]Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+birds+analog+horror&sca_esv=88a22a1789578c76&source=hp&ei=GK1waZHIKNidhbIP8tq84AY&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaXC7KLcELKZKi-IXdNuwnnbEGttfPfBF&oq=hollow+bi&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Iglob2xsb3cgYmkqAggDMgUQABiABDILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwEyDxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGAoYCzIFEAAYgAQyBxAuGIAEGAoyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIHEAAYgAQYCjIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAESO9RUABYzylwAHgAkAEAmAHFCaABnCCqAQswLjUuNS0yLjAuMrgBAcgBAPgBAZgCCaAC_iLCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIFEC4YgATCAg4QLhiABBjHARiOBRivAcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAhEQLhiABBixAxjHARiOBRivAZgDAJIHDzAuNC4xLjAuMS4xLjAuMqAH8n2yBw8wLjQuMS4wLjEuMS4wLjK4B_4iwgcFMy0xLjjIB-sBgAgA&sclient=gws-wiz It's ruining everything, and I just cannot take it anymore with all of this.

>>49376 I cant understand why anyone would believe them in the firstplace, not after all the obvious balant bullshit they pull all the time, even without the internet do they really believe people will not talk about what a crapfest the modern western world is? >>49377 I would laugh my ass off if it would not hit too close to home, i mean are they really this dumb to actually believe its not gonna be bigtech who will sort trough all the data and provide the infrastructure. Furthermore i trust bigtech more than trust those smelly old useless degenerate farts who sit on their asses all day and juggle around with words, atleast bigtech in a fuarrrked up way has one foot on the ground. What the hell are they trying to pull? People are already plenty pissed and the mainstream internet is neigh unsable already. Whats more disturbing is not only are they obviously handing it all out straight to bigtech, which in and of itself is such a propsterious and obvious lie one would have to have an iq bellow comprehension of this fact to accept such a statement, still between the senile old farts who really still might believe that this is aimed at protecting children from harmful influences, the fact of the matter is most young people today use the internet as their outlet of violence, violent gangster culture and the sex crazed insanity painfully visible today is probably the only thing that is holding todays youth back from just burning down everything. I mean what the hell are they thinking? Do they want to get dragged out and lynched? In my day young people always found ways to bypass and cheat the system, young people today are not as naive, stupid and sheeplike as most tend to thing If anything the internet will get too unusable and boring for most people so that they will take their sex and drug fueled anger out into the street, not only will it backfire bigtime on bigtech as they will majorly lose "customers" but also the already dwindling reputability of the powers that be will go out the window for good.

Here's a site I found on XCancel: https://reclaimthenet.org/age-verification However, this isn't what I'm aiming for, but also sites that had restricted guest accessibility with login walls, NSFW content and/or full accessibility in specific countries as well. Sites such as Tumblr, Twitter, Newgrounds, Reddit and Imgur have been affected recently by these impacting threats - Tumblr had derezzed NSFW content and blocked anon asks, Twitter prevented guests from searching on their platform until they logged in, Newgrounds had stopped guests from accessing A-rated material even through backdoor access, Reddit is preventing guests from accessing old.reddit.com, and Imgur had blocked UK users over ICO fining them. All of this MUST be reversed completely, as it affected the mainstream internet. Tumblr's Safe Mode affected how they would even handle NSFW content/blogs that share content containing visual depictions of sexually explicit acts of any kind, and outright banning them. This MUST be wholly re-allowed on the site. Same as anon asks and tag searches. Imgur needs to re-allow NSFW content to the site and people in the UK browsing the site. And there's a lot more that must be dealt with.

>>49392 I had covered a list of guest accessibility censorship several times and this cannot continue anymore. I want old.reddit.com to be available to guests forever, because if they start requiring everyone to log in, this change will be abusive. This is yet another form of guest accessibility censorship that should never take effect on sites like this.

How come this Google Doc is giving me a login redirect? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B8MYl6Oo1MAC5sj3xI2o3AuD9iIvnDGQgma6_7AumjY/edit?usp=sharing

>>49441 Because whoever the own is set its privacy setting to require a login to access. Likely under ' Only those added can access'.

>>49442 That should not happen anymore, and it's guest accessibility censorship several times. It cannot continue anymore. I want old.reddit.com to be available to guests forever, because if they start requiring everyone to log in, this change will be abusive.

>>49443 https://www.resetera.com/threads/reddit-will-force-users-visiting-old-reddit-com-to-login-to-an-account-within-the-next-month.1565473/ I want old.reddit.com to be available to guests forever, because if they start requiring everyone to log in, this change will be abusive to guests like me as their recent interface doesn't look right, since I preferred the 2017 version of Reddit's interface. I disagree about how the old.reddit.com branch affects automated systems that would access the site in any way, as login walls and blocks had been hurting guest accessibility. Tumblr and Twitter thrown login walls to people like me - as guests - and I cannot stand how much time this had turned the internet into some sort of barren wasteland. And I want them to remove those blocks for good. Images are there for reference. On a side note, this link (https://old.reddit.com/over18?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FClopClop%2Fcomments%2F13bo02%2Fhoof_beat_2_coming_soon%2Fc72pn6i) could get affected as well. In short, I want old.reddit.com to not have any login walls within the next month.

>>49069 IncendiaryOCT uploaded yet another "graphic media" labelled image on their BlueSky account: https://bsky.app/profile/incendiary.bsky.social/post/3mqrguyh3ic2k This, like with all the other ones I've found, should clearly not be censored in any way to prevent guests from seeing the material. Remember that I covered a list of content labels in post #45981?I had said anything marked as graphic media (like gore) isn't adult content, therefore it should've had the toggle bar because that's for teen audiences, for the most part. All the labels should've been configured so that they could be toggled off and on, or that the labels themselves are removed, giving guests an opportunity to see affected images and videos, especially with adult content and graphic media. I want old.reddit.com to not have any login walls within the next month, as I disagree about how the old.reddit.com branch affects automated systems that would access the site in any way, as login walls and blocks had been hurting guest accessibility.

>>49457 I always feel like the site never works right when using old reddit. At this point it feels like they're just trying to phase users off of the old style of reddit so we can be pushed to their new slop feed

>>49463 I always feel like the site never works right when using new reddit on the other hand I never go there lol

>>49464 Same here with me, but I missed the 2018 version of Reddit. >>49463 >"At this point it feels like they're just trying to phase users off of the old style of Reddit..." Again, this is guest accessibility on the internet that people are leaning on, and thus against being lost to time. You can see for yourself that the war isn't over yet.

>>49069 >"Piped had been upgraded, therefore the bot issues were fixed" Unfortunately, YouTube's bot issue has affected Piped again, this time with "YouTube probably temporarily blocked anonymous watch access with this IP , got error LOGIN_REQUIRED: "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot"". TeamPiped should fix this, since I'm the first to report this recently: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/3658 Taken from the source code: org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.SignInConfirmNotBotException: YouTube probably temporarily blocked anonymous watch access with this IP , got error LOGIN_REQUIRED: "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.checkPlayabilityStatus(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:905) at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.fetchAndroidClient(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:955) at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.onFetchPage(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:862) at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Extractor.fetchPage(Extractor.java:60) at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:77) at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:72) at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:67) at me.kavin.piped.server.handlers.StreamHandlers.lambda$streamsResponse$0(StreamHandlers.java:54) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317) at java.base/java.lang.VirtualThread.run(VirtualThread.java:329)

>>49497 This happened when I opened https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=DGHGqvS1goI in a new tab unintentionally while browsing.

I had been getting sick of members-only videos on YouTube - typically, with YouTube channels such as Alpha Beta Gamer - because the site had gotten worse and worse with the prime reason being ads before actual videos. They should be removed. I had covered a list of guest accessibility blocks and censorship several times and this cannot continue anymore for any person using the internet, including me and other users on this very site. Being the OP of both these threads, I want the internet to go back the open way that people had used in the past, be it autism or not. (Other users here, please refrain from mentioning autism, as it's serious.) I want old.reddit.com to be available to guests forever, because if they start requiring everyone to log in, this change will be abusive - another form of guest accessibility censorship that should never, ever happen this month coming. This is not to do with automated systems that would access the site in any way, as login walls and blocks had been hurting guest accessibility. Tumblr and Twitter thrown login walls to people like me - as guests - and I cannot stand how much time this had turned the internet into some sort of barren wasteland. And I want them to remove those blocks for good. This is the same with the UK's OSA and NSFW material blocks; they should all be outlawed.

Back in 2025, hashtags on BlueSky would work properly before they gave me error messages. Now they changed that to a login wall. Here's an example: https://bsky.app/hashtag/KittyKart64 They are acting like Tumblr and Twitter and abuses guest accessibility. Picture attached; sorry I got a weird headache and I feel vague. As for my last post, thank you very much for not mentioning personal matters and understanding that it's serious, and not to be taken as a joke. Peace out.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/reddit-will-force-users-visiting-old-reddit-com-to-login-to-an-account-within-the-next-month.1565473/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com/ I want old.reddit.com to be available to guests forever, because if they start requiring everyone to log in, this change will be abusive to guests like me as their recent interface doesn't look right, since I preferred the 2018 version of Reddit's interface. I disagree about how the old.reddit.com branch affects automated systems that would access the site in any way, as login walls and blocks had been hurting guest accessibility. Tumblr and Twitter thrown login walls to people like me - as guests - and I cannot stand how much time this had turned the internet into some sort of barren wasteland. And I want them to remove those blocks for good. Tumblr and Twitter thrown login walls to people like me - as guests - and I cannot stand how much time this had turned the internet into some sort of barren wasteland. And I want them to remove those blocks for good. This is the same with the UK's OSA and NSFW material blocks; they should all be outlawed. On a side note, this link (https://old.reddit.com/over18?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FClopClop%2Fcomments%2F13bo02%2Fhoof_beat_2_coming_soon%2Fc72pn6i) could get affected as well. This is why I am asking people to act against this news that had been addressed in post #49362, to make old.reddit.com fully accessible to guests with no account from August 2026 onward. They ruined it, much as Tumblr was ruined over their NSFW blocks and ban.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217 I disagree about how the old.reddit.com branch affects automated systems that would access the site in any way, as login walls and blocks had been hurting guest accessibility. This is why Reddit should not required people to log in to use old.reddit.com ever. Tumblr and Twitter thrown login walls to people like me - as guests - and I cannot stand how much time this had turned the internet into some sort of barren wasteland. And I want them to remove those blocks for good. This is the same with the UK's OSA and NSFW material blocks; they should all be outlawed.

Bumping again as it's important.

>>49497 TeamPiped had updated this: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/4257 Video lists hadn't loaded up on the official instance, while other instances will say "IP blocked" or "sign in to confirm that you're not a bot". This issue hadn't been sorted out since 2024, so here's hoping they sort it out with better coding and what not.

old.reddit.com isn't available without logging in now. At the moment, old.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion still works.

>>49626 Yes, I've heard and read about it, but I very much disagree about how the old.reddit.com branch affects automated systems that would access the site in any way, as login walls and blocks had been hurting guest accessibility. This is why Reddit should have not required people to log in to use old.reddit.com in the long run. Changes are hard for some of us but I wished people agreed with me about login walls and censorship and why the internet's not what it used to be. guess it's better than arguing, whew...

>>49626 >>49685 still works for me, western EU

>>49687 Seems like it works today. There was a login block the other day

Nitter and XCancel aren't working because they have been rate limited and/or have been sending out way too many 429 errors within their site searches. For whatever reason, I have been brute-forcing F5 to work on XCancel because rate-limiting broke every Nitter branch, but after doing so too much, the site stops working and fetches the "429 Too Many Requests; openresty" message, and no matter how many times you access search from anywhere on XCancel (and/or mash F5), it still gives me the error. It won't stop displaying the 429 error page in new windows, and also would show up whenever I put filters to a site search. Here's an example: https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23thebindingofisaac&since=&until=&near= - would fetch "Instance has been rate limited. Use another instance or try again later" error https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23pokemon&f-images=on&e-replies=on&e-nativeretweets=on&cursor=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 - after clicking on "Load more" during search with filters fetches the "429 Too Many Requests; openresty" error and locks me out >>49249 >>49325 https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23nsfw and https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23nsfwtwt have been globally blocked again. However, https://xcancel.com/PufffyPink2 (an account I've found on XCancel) is an example of why NSFW content should not be blocked because they had (at one point) a post that was properly tagged NSFW, yet it's globally blocked and shouldn't be. This is a huge censorship issue on anybody's hands, including myself.

Terrible news: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/ On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository. nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. zedeus is seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics ATM

Tumlook is breaking up, like it keeps bringing up 500 errors like they did with Tumbig. That site has been broken, and I do not know if Tumbig's going to be fixed by their own servers, as Tumbig doesn't have an official contact email, phone number, or support team. Every link had given me the same error 500 message and I had grown sick of it. I had grown sick of the internet being so crippled, for example old.reddit.com should've never had a login/auth block set on the site, or users on Tumblr telling people to go to Twitter or Bluesky to view their NSFW content, because of Tumblr’s repeated mistake of banning adult content abruptly, which reflects a failure to treat its community. The 2018 adult content ban on the site was caused by the site implementing Safe Mode in 2017-2018, and never the IOS app and their routine checks on their database. Also, this: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/ Everything about this login/auth block stuff is so WRONG on so many levels that the internet is dying fast.

Even this site is affected by the UK's Online Safety Act: https://chaturbate.com/?join_overlay=1&campaign=KK90V&sid=6e9afd4c7b440b5d815e4ed6f644dab8&tour=grq0&track=RemD_GB&disable_sound=0 Found this while browsing Tumgik. Pic attached but it is spoilered for obvious reasons.

>>49749 https://codeberg.org/mv12star/soykafter/wiki/Instances

>>49626 I think it is over for good this time. Neither old.reddit.com or old.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion work >Go away, spammer. Shut up

>>49779 This is why I very much disagreed about how the old.reddit.com branch affects automated systems that would access the site in any way, as login walls and blocks had been hurting guest accessibility. This is why Reddit should have not required people to log in to use old.reddit.com in the long run and I still do. Both links should be reverted to being 100 percent accessible.

Bumping again as it's important

>>49779 >>49849 Not sure for how long that will work, but you can access old reddit frontend from reddit.com by setting a cookie. Doesn't need to be logged in either.

>>50128 Ok, didn't know. What kind of cookie do you need to set on Reddit to access the older version?

>>50132 You have to set redesign_optout to true. If you want something that automatically handle that and rewriting url, you can use old reddit redirection firefox/chrome extension.

Time and time again, I had been improving my list of login/auth blocks issues and how you can help. Other people, such as those that tackle mislabelling material as censorship (https://archive.is/Td5NY) or rejected by an organization responsible for approving all adverts and ensuring they comply with the rules set by the authorities (https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk). Most of the links I've found are aimed at NSFW content and the UK's Online Safety Act. Due to a 'too many links flooding' error, this list is split into a few parts, since I had updated the list often. Main: - https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/07/online-id-age-verification-the-death-of-online-search-and-non-browser-web-access/ [/i]- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395497-login-reminder-popup-remover-developement-ceased-not-up-to-date/code OSA: [i]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023#Age_verification Login/auth blocks: Twitter/X: -https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+block+site:www.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiny6v29tqDAxV4X0EAHU_YBtIQrQIoBHoECB4QBQ&biw=1128&bih=1571&dpr=1.5 -https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter_starts_to_require_login_to_view_tweets/ Tumblr: -https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&client=tablet-android-samsung-rev2&sca_esv=598195629&biw=1128&bih=1571&ei=r82iZafSJ-zPhbIP5cONmAM&ved=0ahUKEwjn5ZX49tqDAxXsZ0EAHeVhAzMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=tumblr+login+block+site%3Awww.reddit.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJnR1bWJsciBsb2dpbiBibG9jayBzaXRlOnd3dy5yZWRkaXQuY29tSOZNUPoaWM1LcAF4AJABAJgBmQKgAbAIqgEFNC40LjG4AQPIAQD4AQHiAwQYASBBiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#ip=1 -https://wip.tumblr.com/tagged/anonymous%20asks These are the only two sites I enjoyed searching for as a guest before they added login walls, and that's something I can't stand. However, there ARE other sites such as Facebook and Pintrest that block guests from accessing their sites. NSFW content auth blocks/bans (most of these are related to problems with NCOSE and FOSTA SESTA, but also the Online Safety Act in the UK): Twitter/X: -https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/419 e621.net (this only applies to a global blacklist affecting young rating:q and young rating:e content): -https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber/issues/2414 -https://github.com/McSib/e621_downloader/issues/35 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/25850 -https://e621.net/forum_topics/26236 Please note that this does not apply to a blacklist anybody that can customise themselves. Steam: -https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3183486162290924943/ Please note that this is the only forum post I know of that mentions the NSFW login block message via the Steam Store. Examples: -https://web.archive.org/web/20191101000000*/https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/260330/ -https://steamcommunity.com/id/greenthermite/screenshots/?appid=420110&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall -https://store.steampowered.com/app/2293660/ -https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2664821140 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3586999274 Newgrounds: -https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2456 -https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/12kfb4j/adult_section_backdoor_bypass_closed/ (this post had been NSFW-blocked) Their issue with the UK's Online Safety Act is covered by Yoti. Tumblr: -https://web.archive.org/web/20170327222334/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20181216040913/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012260613-November-16-2018-Issues-with-the-iOS-app -https://web.archive.org/web/20181231211747/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://web.archive.org/web/20220203015805/https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content -https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/mature-nsfw-content/ - -https://fanlore.org/wiki/Tumblr_NSFW_Content_Purge -https://archived.moe/t/thread/859332/ (contains pop-up adverts, most of them being NSFW so be warned) More in the next post.

My list of links, continued from >>50138 I forgotten about adding https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/110182311525990839 and https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/879987 as examples for Newgrounds, and I will update it if there's reminder. Reddit: -https://old.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/xxub2b/log_in_to_confirm_youre_over_18/ -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829633 Example: https://old.reddit.com/over18?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2FClopClop%2Fcomments%2F13bo02%2Fhoof_beat_2_coming_soon%2Fc72pn6i Pixiv: -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149093 -https://www.pixiv.help/hc/en-us/articles/235585348-My-viewing-restrictions-are-set-to-block-age-restricted-material-R-18-or-R-18G-but-I-can-still-see-works-with-R-18-tags DeviantART: https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/what-is-deviantarts-policy-around-sexual-erotic-and-fetish-themes Gumroad: https://baraag.net/@PixelJail/112101324902574039 (thanks to PixelJail for the discovery) Itch.io (thanks to some anons on Lainchan for the discovery, as seen in https://lainchan.org/r/res/44024.html#q46603): -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-apologise-for-frustration-and-confusion-after-delisting-thousands-of-nsfw-projects -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HxoIm1KiFsXn0e6pjmeV3j3TdAWnnDWXKjE7C6Ka-x4/edit?gid=1806152370#gid=1806152370 -https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content -https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/itch-io-is-restoring-some-nsfw-content/ -https://bsky.app/profile/sjklapecki.itch.io/post/3lwc6nzwggs2l -https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchios-mass-delisting-of-paid-adult-content-has-also-affected-safe-for-work-games-with-yuri-or-lesbian-themes-devs-claim -https://itch.io/t/5133739/our-update-on-the-uk-online-safety-act -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/we-believe-these-restrictions-harm-creative-expression-the-reaction-to-the-uks-online-safety-act - A prime example for all archived versions of the message that you get if you wanted to view an 18+ game on itch.io can be found within https://web.archive.org/web/20231101000000*/cobalt-studio.itch.io/anamnesis Both itch.io and Steam: -https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-processors -https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/no_mercy Both of these links was what both itch.io and Steam had to go through. -https://www.gamesindustry.biz/whats-going-on-with-steam-and-itchios-crackdown-on-adult-content Imgur: -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/31844016762779-Explicit-content-on-Imgur -https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom (keep in mind that this was because MediaLab (who owns Imgur) was about to be fined by ICO which caused Imgur to add geo-restrictions to people in the UK, not the OSA) Google SafeSearch (OSA-related): https://www.google.com/search?q=safesearch+local+laws&sca_esv=3aa6d84c464b4bf8&source=hp&ei=DfX_aNPRLo-uhbIPn9CquQk&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaQADHbs7Qbx29YZOMyW-WjcW2r-zcPXd&ved=0ahUKEwiTjOXHucWQAxUPV0EAHR-oKpcQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=safesearch+local+laws&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+birds+analog+horror&sca_esv=88a22a1789578c76&source=hp&ei=GK1waZHIKNidhbIP8tq84AY&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaXC7KLcELKZKi-IXdNuwnnbEGttfPfBF&oq=hollow+bi&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Iglob2xsb3cgYmkqAggDMgUQABiABDILEC4YgAQYxwEYrwEyDxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGAoYCzIFEAAYgAQyBxAuGIAEGAoyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIHEAAYgAQYCjIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAESO9RUABYzylwAHgAkAEAmAHFCaABnCCqAQswLjUuNS0yLjAuMrgBAcgBAPgBAZgCCaAC_iLCAgsQABiABBixAxiDAcICERAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBwgIOEC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYxwHCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIFEC4YgATCAg4QLhiABBjHARiOBRivAcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIIEC4YgAQYsQPCAhEQLhiABBixAxjHARiOBRivAZgDAJIHDzAuNC4xLjAuMS4xLjAuMqAH8n2yBw8wLjQuMS4wLjEuMS4wLjK4B_4iwgcFMy0xLjjIB-sBgAgA&sclient=gws-wiz TikTok: https://www.facebook.com/rickbeldenpoet/videos/i-discovered-yesterday-that-tiktok-is-restricting-visibility-of-this-video-and-r/1527258135154898/ Twitch: https://cybernews.com/uk/how-to-use-vpn/twitchs-new-face-scan-age-verification-hits-uk-users/ Other sites affected by OSA: https://naughtyniche.art/product/bb1/ https://subscribestar.adult/age_confirmation_warning https://chaturbate.com/?join_overlay=1&campaign=KK90V&sid=6e9afd4c7b440b5d815e4ed6f644dab8&tour=grq0&track=RemD_GB&disable_sound=0 Both types of login/auth blocks: BlueSky (for !no-unauthenticated, !hide and porn labelled posts): https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation Take note that I said >"anonymous browsing is a crucial element that had been affected in recent years by restrictions for NSFW content" These, alongside algorithms to filter content, had affected the mainstream internet, beginning with Tumblr in 2017. This whole thing affected adult content being allowed on the site for guests to view in the long run. Will add new links in the future.

>>48204 For whatever reason, Google's SafeSearch feature can be toggled between the filter, blur or off options as normal or have the filter option set by the UK's Online Safety Act at random. This happens if the site detects a UK location, like I've showed in the example in post #48204, however this is because of my laptop's poor battery that keeps freezing at 0% charge or keeps breaking... like, I don't know... I have no words to explain and I feel a sense of dread within me. Source: https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&sca_esv=75f3bce9ede7bd4b&biw=1366&bih=657&udm=vids&fbs=ABfTbFVyMZGZf1hfvX9uKjN_-G8c4u0nXx4bEIpwm1lnNH832VTJOOCxW_fyN-Q_ezyf8gKjm3rhh_G8jdZ2Q6tji4z8Mva6cfvBj5rpPch2IC955D1GLtW96sIPBQYGtqk6WG825LA3tFpj1bp72NtnKxw5HM3_NuezUDRWiiPkzo8kVZ99l6BB1u6e4x5k3YuSUq9ycS61R0vGZZQQnfmVHOQGXZ3LLA&q=suppermariobroth+twitter+sunshine&ved=2ahUKEwirvYSM84aXAxVkVEEAHRJiE98QtKgLegQIGRAB Take care, lainons.

Not exactly auth block, don't know where else to post. It's nearly impossible to archive stackoverflow and a bunch of other sites now