An update for users in Brazil and the United Kingdom
To continue our commitment to user safety and to comply with local laws, we will start using age groups to determine access to certain experiences.
People in Brazil or in the UK, who are 18 or older, will soon need to verify their age to change content label settings and view mature-labeled content. Until then, the settings will be locked to hide.
As a reminder, verification is handled by our age-assurance partner, k-ID. Tumblr won't have access to the information you submit, just the final age-verification result. Documents are deleted after confirmation, and facial scan data never leaves your device.ย
Questions? Contact Tumblr support or learn more about these changes here.
YOU.
Oh-- I'm so done with this. Ah yes, casual "yes show us your identity so we can 'confirm' you are over 18" DO YOU HAVE THE SLIGHTEST IDEA HOW **dumb** that is??? It's not to protect the kids, you know. It never was. It was to track us at all times even in the privacy of the internet, one of the FREE PLACES for isolated people to interact with one another! I can't access my own fucking communities because of similar things like this. Words cannot describe the low-level enragement I feel both towards you (for daring to write this out without consIDERING the consequences), your company (for complying), and the degenerate bastards that put this "law" forward (for daring to put the law forward).
Fuck you.
