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2 Million VPNs in One Month: How Age Verification Laws Backfired
Dev.to Machine Learning
About This Tutorial
The data is in: age gates are actually a VPN marketing campaign When the UK’s Online Safety Act began its enforcement phase, the industry expected a shift in user behavior. We just didn't expect it to happen at the scale of 2M VPN downloads in a single month. For developers working in the identity, biometrics, and computer vision space, this isn't just a regulatory hurdle - it’s a massive technical signal. It tells us that high-friction verification flows are the fastest way to drive users toward evasion-as-a-service.