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Question: How does a company block access from an entire country? Is that done through DNS or IP range or something else?

>>Hardwa+(OP)
When you receive a request to your website (or any service), that request comes from an IP address. There are databases that can tell you what country an IP address is from. It's not perfect, but it works well enough 99.99% of the time. Then, if the country is blacklisted, you do not allow access.

>>keanb+fb
So that could be defeated by a VPN?

>>Hardwa+Ac
Of course.

>>Hardwa+Ac
Trivially which is why VPN's have boomed in the UK since this was brought in.

An entirely predictable result given how easy it is to install a VPN vs having to verify yourself constantly to sketchy third parties on every site that has adult content (note: adult meaning adult not pornography..a lot of non-porn adult stuff get caught in the net).

>>noir_l+ye
For now.

1. Driver's licenses are becoming a web standard soon. https://github.com/w3c-fedid/digital-credentials

Support was added just last week in Safari 26. https://digitalcredentials.dev

2. The UK is keeping a very close eye on VPNs. https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/could-vpn...

>>keanb+Od
Makes it seem almost pointless.

>>gjsman+Xe
Driver's licenses are becoming a web standard soon.

Could you elaborate on this? I for one would never elect to participate.

>>Hardwa+Ac
I tried. Imgur managed to block from Amsterdam, France, Singapore and US. The only success I has was Russia.

>>rkager+5t
The search term you're looking for is "age verification laws".

>>gjsman+Xe
There is a reason that google and apple aren't screaming about these laws.

That pretty much is the reason - they want to become identify brokers for the entire online ecosystem and if it costs them under 18 users they don't really care, they aren't typically the ones with the money anyway.