Bluesky adds (broken) age verification

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12 pointsneogodless6 comments

Almost certainly no big loss. One more social network pushing me out.

https://imgur.com/a/nCodoF5 <- broken age verification prompts.

Breaks on both Firefox and Edge. I don't have Chrome installed to test it on.

See also: https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528... Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.

The gist sadly doesn't work. I have tried local overrides and it still redirects to modal screen.

I have been able to login to bluesky via third-party client to publish farewell post.

Absolutely fuck that.

content not available, please use a better image host that doesn't blanket region block

https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgu...

What host would you suggest?

you've just linked to the root site, which loads perfectly fine for me when not signed in. is there any additional blog post to delineate the changes made?

https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification A New Form of Verification on Bluesky April 21, 2025

https://bsky.social/about/blog/09-10-2025-age-assurance-appr... Our Approach to Age Assurance September 8, 2025

I'm in the U.S. but not a state that has this requirement. No idea why it's requiring it for me (nor why it's so broken.)

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