The amount of people visiting the most popular pornography sites in Britain has decreased after the arrival of the new era verification rules, indicating new figures.
Data Analytics firm Eyeswell said that the leading adult site Pornhub lost more than a million visitors in just two weeks.
Pornhub and other major adult websites introduced advanced age check on 25 July Online Safety Act said that sites should make it difficult To see clear materials for under -18.
Similar data experts compared daily average user data of popular pornography sites from 1 to 9 August with daily average data for July.
Pornhub is the most viewed website of the UK for adult content and experienced a 47% decrease in traffic between July 24, a day before the new rules, and on August 8, according to similar figures.
At the same time, traffic for XVideos, another major adult site, was also 47% below and onlyfans saw more than 10% traffic drop.
The average daily trips to Pornhub fell from 3.2 million in July to 2 million in the first nine days of August.
However, data also revealed that some small and less well -regulated pornography sites saw an increase in trips.
It comes after Virtual private network (VPN) apps After the implementation of age verification rules, the Apple’s App was the most downloaded on Apple’s App Store in the UK.
VPNs can dissolve your location online – allows you to use the Internet as you are in another country.
The application will also make it difficult to collect data on how many people are going from specific places to sites.
Media regulator estimates that 14 million people watch online pornography.
It has determined the websites in many ways that can verify the age of users including websites using credit card checks, photo ID matching and selfie.
Critics have suggested that changes may have an unexpected result that people may have to drive for more extreme content in deep corners of the Internet, such as dark web.
