The background is the UK's new legal requirement for age verification on porn sites. Verification can be done, for example, by using a credit card, a digital age verification card or an ID card.
By October, when the law came into effect, the site's traffic had dropped by 77 percent in the UK.
In a statement, Pornhub calls it a "failed system" and objects to the fact that their site, "which contains legal and regulated porn," will no longer be available to new users while "thousands of irresponsible porn sites will still be easy to access."
