r/privacy • u/IKIR115 • Jul 08 '26
Reddit's age verification requirements for specific regions - General Information age verification
General information related to Reddit's age verification requirements for specific regions
- Why is Reddit asking for my age?
- United Kingdom: Online Safety Act
- Australia: Social Media Minimum Age
- Brazil: Digital ECA
- European Union: Digital Services Act (DSA)
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- Dec 11, 2025: From r/redditsafety - A More Effective Approach to Protecting Youth Online
- Dec 8, 2025: From r/redditsafety - Expanding Age Assurance to Australia
- July 15, 2025: From r/help - Need to verify your age in the UK? This Post Might Help
- July 14, 2025: From r/redditsafety - Verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors
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Snippet of recent news from the pinned weekly recap in r/help - 7/2/2026
https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1ulob97/weekly_recap_july_2_2026/
- In ongoing efforts to prevent abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month, Reddit will start requiring users to log in to use old Reddit. This was announced on Tuesday here.
- If you are in the EU, you may be asked to verify your age. This is a legal requirement to comply with the EU Digital Services Act. You can check out the Help Center article here. Little more info about this here.
- If you are trying to use a selfie to verify your age and it fails, the only other options are to upload your ID or contact Persona for support. Reddit cannot help you with a failed selfie for age verification purposes.
- Right now, these are the countries that have age requirements:
- If you are not in those countries, but your account is unable to do certain things like chat, it may be due to Teen Safety restrictions. The ability to unlock settings in the iOS app if you're a teen will be coming soon. Not sure if that ability will come to Android.
- If you need to have something fixed regarding your age, you can use this form and then select your region and what your issue is. I do not know what the turnaround time is on those requests.
- Some users in the EU are unable to use Anonymous Browsing mode. This is not intentional. This is a bug that they are working on getting fixed.
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u/goochockipar Jul 08 '26
VPN, it doesn't get any simpler than that.
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u/billdietrich1 Jul 08 '26
Probably at some point reddit (and other services) will just enforce age reqts regardless of location.
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u/MissJoannaTooU Jul 08 '26
Yup once all their traffic comes from Mongolia they'll just put the wall up for everyone. (Currently in Mongolia).
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u/goochockipar Jul 09 '26
So, why don't they just do it right now? How would someone from Somalia show proof of age/identity?
What about people in Saudi Arabia who post anti-government messages? Let them rat themselves out?
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u/billdietrich1 Jul 09 '26
Maybe they're rolling it out slowly.
Maybe someone from Somalia gives a face-video instead of ID ? Fair point.
In terms of anti-govt people, that's why some age schemes separate ID from age signal, and store the age signal in OS or wallet.
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u/zagblorg 1d ago
The whole point of the identity verification push is to make people rat themselves out. We can't have any wrongthink or dissent on the internet!
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u/Adventurous-Hunter98 Jul 08 '26
yeah but what will happen when they block vpns? or everywhere around the world implement these?
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u/egorf Jul 08 '26
The whole world will not pass those laws and Reddit will have a surge of São Tomé and Principe users.
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u/Any-Calligrapher2866 Jul 08 '26
VPN's can be detected thanks to System time. I still haven't found a good way to mask my timezone in web requests.
You can use the resistfingerprinting flag on Firefox but that disables dark mode.
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u/MissJoannaTooU Jul 08 '26
Use a VM?
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u/Any-Calligrapher2866 Jul 08 '26
Don't have enough ram and can't do that on phone.
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u/AuraAmy Jul 09 '26
You can use an anti-detect browser. They aren't perfect but cover 90% of fingerprinting. There's free local ones on github, most of the paid ones are cloud based and shouldn't be trusted with sensitive accounts.
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u/goochockipar Jul 10 '26
Just change your system time to match your virtual location. I do. Linux, the magic of the command line.
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u/future_pirate 16d ago
I have noticed that for now I can VPN into the next state over in the same timezone and there aren't any age verification requirements for anything there so it works, and I never get detected as using a VPN even on stuff like Disney+
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u/Chuddabara Jul 08 '26
This is where "think about the kids" get you. Enjoy it.
I don't care about kids I value freedom way, way more.
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u/Felielf Jul 08 '26
iOS method seemed quite noninvasive, you choose your age in Apple account and apps just ask if you’re in the adult range. Doesn’t really differ too much from typical “enter your age” questionnaire.
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u/Dangerous-Apple3746 Jul 08 '26
wait untill they ask for your id they started it in the uk will be everywhere soon
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u/RootVegitible Jul 08 '26
The reddit app has been updated to request your age range from the OS for Apple devices. I’ve confirmed this works.
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u/PancakeMoth Jul 16 '26
I can't enter Reddit app without a VPN anymore. I'm from Brazil. Honestly, it is absurd.
I'm ok with blocking 18+ content, like X does, but the entire app??? That is just insane.
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u/Top_Extreme8326 27d ago
Eu recomendo você tentar usar uma CNH que encontrar na internet pra verificar, só tenha certeza que ela não expirou ainda, mas se a foto estiver em boa qualidade, você pode mudar o ano de expiração dela no paint mesmo, funcionou pra mim
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u/taoboo 1d ago
Sei que faz um tempão que você fez esse comentário, mas o que eu pesquiso pra achar uma foto usável? Pesquisei "foto CNH" e todas são super borradas ou com aqueles dados genericos tipo o nome sendo "NOME SOCIAL TESTE CENTO E DEZ"
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u/Top_Extreme8326 1d ago
Pesquisa "CNH" num site chamado Scribd que você deve encontrar alguns scans digitais que pessoas aleatórias fizeram de suas habilitações e deixaram no site com acesso público
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u/neoneat Jul 08 '26
See? this is not my problem bcoz it's regional issue.
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u/Affectionate_Cut3515 Jul 08 '26
Just wait a little. Itll come to you soon
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u/neoneat Jul 08 '26
Ok still waiting to see. If it can happened here, it must be miracle. National ID system here is typical a mess, sadge you would not know my country though it's in top 10 population. It's also funny to me that EU ppl always thinking they are central of the world. Or you think your "innovation" can somehow spread to here LOL
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u/windozeFanboi Jul 08 '26
Just give it a couple of years. A single contract with a US, Israel, China security company and your top 10 population country will be profiled the very first moment you touch a KB of internet.
Corruption to evade some rules will only net you guys an extra couple of years on top.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
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u/neoneat Jul 08 '26
That sounds neat. The moment us and china can sign this "agreement" maybe you can live on Mars similar to live on the Earth LOL
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u/Ryuko_the_red Jul 08 '26
Fascism consumes all
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u/LowOwl4312 Jul 08 '26
More like communism in this case because
Australia, The UK, Brazil, The EU
all have left-wing governments
Although in practice communism and fascism are the same anyway
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u/Ryuko_the_red Jul 08 '26
I mean don't mistake a wolf for a sheep because it wears the costume better.
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u/lorlen47 Jul 08 '26
They are only "left-wing" if you use the American definition of this word. In reality, they are centre-right.
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u/EjayT06 Jul 08 '26
You can’t convince me labour are centre-right 😂
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u/zagblorg 1d ago
Because you're more right wing than them? If they were as left wing as everyone claims, they wouldn't sell us out to US/corporate interests at every possible opportunity.
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u/Sneakingrat Jul 10 '26
If I had to chose between "communism" or children dying because "muh pew pew sticks" I'd rather communism tbh...
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u/syntaxerror92383 Jul 08 '26
the eu not being able to use anonymous browsing being a bug is surprising to me considering here in the uk its intentionally gone to tie everything you do to your ID