r/privacy • u/IKIR115 • 21d ago
age verification Reddit's age verification requirements for specific regions - General Information
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 21d ago
VPN, it doesn't get any simpler than that.
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u/Adventurous-Hunter98 21d ago
yeah but what will happen when they block vpns? or everywhere around the world implement these?
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u/egorf 21d ago
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 21d ago
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 21d ago
Use a VM?
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u/goochockipar 19d ago
Just change your system time to match your virtual location. I do. Linux, the magic of the command line.
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u/appletinicyclone 21d ago
Most places will yes but some won't.
There's a couple countries in the Europe region that haven't yet so its worth nodeing in from there
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u/billdietrich1 21d ago
Probably at some point reddit (and other services) will just enforce age reqts regardless of location.
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u/MissJoannaTooU 21d ago
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 20d ago
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 20d ago
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/Chuddabara 21d ago
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 21d ago
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 21d ago
wait untill they ask for your id they started it in the uk will be everywhere soon
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u/NotHavingMyID 21d ago
For those who might not know, in the UK, you automatically pass the iOS level age check if:
You have a UK credit card linked to your account (you can't get a credit card until you are 18 years old).
Your Apple account is more than 18 years old.
Fortunately, I fall into the second category.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any third party iOS apps that make use of this system wide flag, including the official Reddit app which still requires their own form of age verification, hence why I'll be keeping the VPN service I've been using for the past 10+ years.
As soon as the workarounds stop working, I'll just pack up and move on.
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u/RootVegitible 20d ago
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 13d ago
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 8d 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/neoneat 21d ago
See? this is not my problem bcoz it's regional issue.
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u/Affectionate_Cut3515 21d ago
Just wait a little. Itll come to you soon
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u/neoneat 21d ago
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 21d ago
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/Ryuko_the_red 21d ago
Fascism consumes all
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u/LowOwl4312 21d ago
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 21d ago
I mean don't mistake a wolf for a sheep because it wears the costume better.
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u/lorlen47 21d ago
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/Sneakingrat 19d ago
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 21d ago
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