Last Friday he entered into force in the United Kingdom the Online Safety Act (Online Security Law) completely, after the first obligations began to become effective since last March. This controversial standard has a declared objective Protect users, especially minors, harmful content On the Internet, such as pornography, suicide incitement, harassment, eating disorders and that appealed term that admits any meaning that suits a government according to the moment: disinformation.
Now, websites with adult content must have Age Verification Systems ‘Robust’ that prevent minors from accessing their contents, under penalty of being sanctioned with up to 21 million euros or 10 % of its global incomewhatever is greater, by OFCOM (Office of Communications), the United Kingdom Communications Regulatory Agency.
However, no 24 hours passed without a form of skip the age of the simplest and that has become viral: using the photo mode of the video game Death Strandingstarring the actor Norman Reedus. X user Dany Sterkhov demonstrated how he had managed to deceive the system K-IDwhich uses the platform Discordwith the recreation that the video game makes of the actor.
You Can Use Death Stranding’s Photo Mode To Bypass Discord’s Age Verification https://t.co/O9n0c0lwkipic.twitter.com/MVYMHZZCVP
– Dany Sterkhov 🛡✈ (@danysterkhov) July 25, 2025
K-ID asks discord users to verify their age when they want Unlock sensitive content, Modify messages configuration either access channels for over 18 years. In these cases, request a facial scan or an identity document. What, in these times that run, where hackeos and data theft to large companies are our daily bread, equivalent to put our privacy at risk.
In the case of facial scan, the discord system asks the user open and close your mouth To prove that he is a real person. It turns out that Death Stranding, the popular video game of Hideo Kojimaincludes a photo mode that allows Modify Sam Porter’s expressionthe character who takes Norman Reedus features, with different gestures, including the mouth. You just have to enter the photo mode, prepare the Reedus gesture and use the mobile to pass the Discord age verification.
As they checked on Pcgamer, the trick even works with the character Dressing your otter hat. This is, as can be assumed, an otter-shaped hat, something that seemed not to matter to K-ID.
Actually, there is another much simpler way to avoid age verification and that is what the British are using massively: The use of VPNSwhich allows simulating user geolocation, has shot since Friday. Proton VPNfor example, has confirmed an increase in 1,400 % in new highs in the service only on that day.