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This is an opt-in feature that implements content restrictions (for e.g. parental control).

It's not opt-in in the UK. It's enabled by default and cannot be disabled without age verification.

It's darkly funny that the UK is so far gone these days that people literally do not believe it.

But how does it work in practice? Say someone put a new adult site online right now that’s some random .com - how quickly and by what mechanism is this block list updated? Seems like mainstream sites that are established and/or big enough to care about being taken down would be compliant and easy to block.

And this is just DNS I assumed unless also keep a record of which ip addresses they actually resolve to.

To be clear I’m interested from the technology perspective and not advocating our UK friends evade government pr0n censors as a form of political protest…

It just has to be good enough, like blocking 80% of adult website is better than nothing, I guess that's their view.

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