They seem to be working now but it did force me to read their terms last night to see if I broke any of their rules and I believe I (and alot of other people) did. Heres a bit from their terms and conditions
"The SITE takes a strong stance in favor of preventing minors from accessing sexually oriented materials. Accordingly, all images, web pages, or tours depicting sexual activity must be protected by some form of legal age verification. Therefore, the SITE adopts the following policies with regard to online age verification: 1) Webmaster must prevent users from accessing images depicting sexual activity (i.e. hardcore images) unless the user has passed through the Birth Date Verifier™ online age verification form; or, through some other type of online age verification device that complies with the requirements of the Child Online Protection Act, (“COPA”); or 2) Alternatively, users must be restricted to accessing pages or content, or Material containing only soft core (i.e. no sexual activity or explicit display of the genitals) materials, which content will be separately identified and provided by the SITE. Violation of this age verification requirement will be considered a material breach, and grounds for automatic termination of this Agreement."
I guess that javascript age verification thing Chops was putting on his free sites wasnt so far off after all. I looked up the Birth Date Verifier™ and its nothing more than what Chops was doing (I lied and said I was 40 and my name was Karl Larl Marl and got it). Maybe I will start using that on my sites with a big fat warning about lying on the form.
Cheers
WB
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