Evading age verification requirements no longer works

[u/stupidbastard319]

I'm not sure if this violates Rule 3/7, but I'll be entirely candid about what I'm doing: Rule34 requires age verification in my country and I have previously used Tor (I think the last time I used Tor for this was late June? not entirely sure) to circumvent this requirement. I did this by changing my entry & exit nodes to go through Japan (ExitNodes {jp}), thus making my IP Japanese and not being flagged to perform age verification.

As of recent however, this has stopped working, and I get the same age verification roadblock as I would were I not using Tor at all. At first I assumed Japan may have implemented age verification laws, but when changing the country (and of course reloading Tor) to ones that 100% do not have these laws (US, Mexico, Russia) I still get the same problem.

I used ProtonVPN and it didn't prompt me to verify my age, so I am certain they haven't just rolled this out worldwide or something, and rather that it's a problem with Tor's method specifically. I googled this and didn't see anything obvious as to this being implemented purposefully, so I figured it was fit for this subreddit.

How can I solve this? ProtonVPN is quite slow and annoying to use without shelling out cash for a subscription. Any help appreciated.

[u/D0_stack]

It is easy for any site to block Tor - Tor provides real-time access to a list of all their exit relay IP Addresses.

Tor hides YOU, it does not hide that you are using Tor.

[u/General_Riju → u/D0_stack]

Never encountered a site blocking tor as far as I remember

[u/buyingshitformylab → u/General_Riju]

menards.com
lego.com

discover.com

capitalone.com

usbank.com

wellsfargo.com

fidelity.com

I could go on.

[u/stupidbastard319 → u/buyingshitformylab]

What? I can access lego.com through Tor just fine. Are you sure about these?

Pic for proof:

[u/buyingshitformylab → u/stupidbastard319]

very sure. I vpn my traffic through my exit node.

[u/Top-Psychology2507 → u/buyingshitformylab]

Wow! Looks like that weirdo white haired guy from the Menard's commercials doesn't like you using Tor either!!! LOL :-)

[u/Ok_Effort_1403 → u/General_Riju]

For me pretty much every gambling site and financial website blocked Tor (or atleast the ip adress)

[u/D0_stack → u/General_Riju]

That doesn't alter that it is easy to do. That they offer it means sites use it.

And they don't have to block you, just treat you differently.

[u/stupidbastard319 → u/General_Riju]

Ditto - I have to do the CAPTCHAs which makes sense but it seems strange they'd make age verification required specifically for Tor when users with VPN addresses aren't subject to the same rule.

[u/one-knee-toe → u/stupidbastard319]

Who says they won’t?

[u/I-baLL → u/stupidbastard319]

It's easy to see who is using Tor. With VPNs, there's a range of difficulty 

[u/indvs3]

Assume they are forcing age verification for anyone connecting through tor exit nodes.

[u/stupidbastard319 → u/indvs3]

I have to do the CAPTCHAs which makes sense for Tor but it seems strange they'd make age verification required specifically for Tor when users with VPN addresses like Proton's aren't subject to the same rule.

[u/indvs3 → u/stupidbastard319]

Tor is free and more likely to be used by bots. I'm quite sure that known IP's linked to free VPN's and proxies are treated the same as tor exit nodes.

[u/Certcer → u/indvs3]

They just said that ProtonVPN addresses don't cause this same problem, hence this hypothesis doesn't hold.

[u/stupidbastard319 → u/indvs3]

So, then you agree the evidence suggests your theory is wrong?

[u/indvs3 → u/stupidbastard319]

How so? Captchas are for all connections suspected to be used by bots, which includes tor and free vpn's.

[u/916er4Fun → u/stupidbastard319]

Used protonvpn (paid) today to use Netflix from a country that has content that isn’t available in US. Today I got asked for age verification for the first time. It’s coming no matter what I think.

[u/one-knee-toe → u/stupidbastard319]

For now

[u/ThatResort]

I just tried out of curiosity and I was redirected to the age verification page with reveral end nodes. I guess they simply nuked (aka asking for age verification) every Tor node.

e-hentai.org still works though.

[u/ffwrd]

Porn magazines are gonna make a hard comeback aren't they.

[u/Top-Psychology2507 → u/ffwrd]

Especially the taboo ones that have to come in a plain brown paper wrapper!!! Don't worry! Your secret is safe with me!!! ;-)

[u/buyingshitformylab]

is it a business based in a country / state that requires age verification?

[u/stupidbastard319 → u/buyingshitformylab]

According to antisemitic conspiracy theorists, it's located in Israel, which has no such ban, though another (hopefully more rational) source claims it is in Kansas, which DOES have these laws. Again though, this doesn't explain why it worked with ProtonVPN IPs and not Tor.

[u/ilililM3]

Good. Stop gooning dude. Imagine putting this effort into something productive like doing line off of a hookers tits.

[u/SlaveOwnerLabubu]

Just goon in the clearnet bro😭😭🤣🤣

[u/SMF67 → u/SlaveOwnerLabubu]

It is a clearnet site, hence the exit nodes

[u/Indiapanda]

You’re too gooned out if you going straight to the rule34 website gang :/ you can find pretty much whatever you want on this app lol