Mid-Year Online Safety Update – The UK Online Safety Act Deadline Has Arrived

Sounds like a much better approach than what many others are resorting to, by just using some basic heuristics to automatically validate a ton of users:

> Regarding age verification, here is our current plan for UK users: If your account is more than ten years old, we will assume you are currently over 18 [...] If your account ever bought Supporter status with a credit card and we can confirm that with the payment processor, we will assume you are over 18 [...] If your account ever bought Supporter status more than two years ago, we will assume you are over 18 [...] If none of the above applies, you will have the opportunity to pay a small one-time fee

> We are not planning to offer things like ID checks or facial recognition because these require us to pay a third party to confirm each person

> One positive is that charging small verification fees will hopefully get Newgrounds closer to break-even, assuming we don’t run into trouble with payment processors