Mindgeek has an age verification product to comply with the UK law but by no means is in charge of age verification in the UK, there are several competitors with their own age verification products.
> AgeID, has been developed by MindGeek, a company that also owns several pornographic websites including Pornhub, RedTube and YouPorn.
> AgeID currently uses official documents such as driver's licences and passports to verify a person's age - but submitting a mobile number tied to a contract phone could be another option.
> The tool is due to be implemented from April 2018 across all adult sites within the UK in accordance with The Digital Economy Act 2017 that was laid out by the government.
It will be regulated by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
It looks like this:
rating RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA
and it can be sent via http headers, or embeded in web pages.Requiring people to register with PII is just asking for trouble.