abandon ship

They should just do what everyone else has been doing and simply not serve the places that require giving up your anonymity.

Best to move off nexusmods now that it’s owned by people with no interest in gaming or mods.

For UK and EU-based users: In the future, we will be introducing age verification for the majority of adult content hosted on the site.

I can’t imagine people are actually complying with this BS, right?

Doesn’t really matter who they’re sold to, they’re going to have to comply with the law, whoever they are, unless they move to the Dark Web.

If they want to verify IDs, they’re probably going to use a 3rd party service for that. Maybe it’ll cost a fee. Maybe they’ll have age verification like steam, just enter your birthday. I hope at least.

But where to?

Some are already on Github (which is not better imo). But half of the mods are not open source.

A sensible approach would be to require that content is tagged and child-unsave tags are hidden by default, must be enabled manually. I think?

That way, children aren’t exposed to content they don’t choose to be exposed to. Wouldn’t that be enough legislation?

Moddb? I use them as well.

If it’s a digital ID they want they’re dead to me. Nobody should trust websites like NexusMods with data about themselves that can’t be easily changed.

That’s less of a Nexus Mods issue and more of a United States suddenly deciding to request ID for any adult content issue.

Blame the “land of the free” and this amazing “sovereign states” structure.

Whatever they end up doing for age verification in the EU/UK can probably be bypassed by a proxy/VPN, at least.

In the US and most of the rest of the world, that’s what they’re doing. In the UK/EU, they’re being forced to require age verification.

Do note that while “protect the children from seeing a titty on the internet” is an unwinnable and pointless battle, the outside UK/EU method doesn’t do anything to prevent it. I’m against age verification as a process, I want my accounts to be fully pseudonymous whenever possible, but without it there’s nothing preventing a horny 15 year old from entering January 1 1990 into the age field or clicking “yes I’m 18” the way everyone’s been doing since the Internet moved beyond Usenet. The EU/UK law is acknowledging the ankle-high barrier that “dude just trust me” age-gating applies, and is attempting to introduce some form of actual verification/accountability for sites that display porn. Doing this is, of course, awful for the freedom of information and privacy that can exist in online spaces, but “we gotta protect the children!!!”.

As far as Nexus goes, this statement is as close as possible to saying “we are going to be complying with this law as we are forced to, but are committed to doing the absolute bare minimum required of us. UK/EU users will have to use a VPN into any other region to bypass whatever age verification system we’re forced to implement.”

A sensible approach would be to require that content is tagged and child-unsave tags are hidden by default, must be enabled manually.

This is already how the site appears for me. It’s stories like these that remind me that the NSFW content is there.

Age Verification is such a scam, why are politician still doesn’t know how internet works in 2025…

Because they were all born in a time before electricity.

Wouldn’t it be better to just have a parenting license you need to get when you have a kid instead of trying to parent everyone using the government instead?