Pornhub to restrict access to new users in the UK from next week.
28 January 2026
The company behind Pornhub said it is withdrawing from the UK market because it claims the UK’s new rules on age verification do not work.
It said updates to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) had “not achieved its goal of protecting minors” and instead had “diverted traffic to darker, unregulated corners of the internet”.
It said updates to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) had “not achieved its goal of protecting minors” and instead had “diverted traffic to darker, unregulated corners of the internet”.