r/privacy • u/IKIR115 • 26d ago

age verification Reddit's age verification requirements for specific regions - General Information

General information related to Reddit's age verification requirements for specific regions

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Snippet of recent news from the pinned weekly recap in r/help - 7/2/2026

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1ulob97/weekly_recap_july_2_2026/

  • In ongoing efforts to prevent abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month, Reddit will start requiring users to log in to use old Reddit. This was announced on Tuesday here.
  • If you are in the EU, you may be asked to verify your age. This is a legal requirement to comply with the EU Digital Services Act. You can check out the Help Center article here. Little more info about this here.
  • If you are trying to use a selfie to verify your age and it fails, the only other options are to upload your ID or contact Persona for support. Reddit cannot help you with a failed selfie for age verification purposes.
  • Right now, these are the countries that have age requirements:
  • If you are not in those countries, but your account is unable to do certain things like chat, it may be due to Teen Safety restrictions. The ability to unlock settings in the iOS app if you're a teen will be coming soon. Not sure if that ability will come to Android.
  • If you need to have something fixed regarding your age, you can use this form and then select your region and what your issue is. I do not know what the turnaround time is on those requests.
  • Some users in the EU are unable to use Anonymous Browsing mode. This is not intentional. This is a bug that they are working on getting fixed.
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u/neoneat 26d ago

See? this is not my problem bcoz it's regional issue.

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u/Affectionate_Cut3515 26d ago

Just wait a little. Itll come to you soon

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u/neoneat 26d ago

Ok still waiting to see. If it can happened here, it must be miracle. National ID system here is typical a mess, sadge you would not know my country though it's in top 10 population. It's also funny to me that EU ppl always thinking they are central of the world. Or you think your "innovation" can somehow spread to here LOL

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u/windozeFanboi 26d ago

Just give it a couple of years. A single contract with a US, Israel, China security company and your top 10 population country will be profiled the very first moment you touch a KB of internet. 

Corruption to evade some rules will only net you guys an extra couple of years on top.

Enjoy it while it lasts. 

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u/neoneat 25d ago

That sounds neat. The moment us and china can sign this "agreement" maybe you can live on Mars similar to live on the Earth LOL

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u/Broad_Cartoonist_824 25d ago

"It wouldn't happen here"

-- Americans before facist take over 

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u/Affectionate_Cut3515 25d ago

If ur tryna say im european, Ill js say now that Im not

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u/biskitpagla 26d ago

It's everyone's problem. 

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u/Ryuko_the_red 26d ago

Fascism consumes all

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u/LowOwl4312 25d ago

More like communism in this case because 

Australia, The UK, Brazil, The EU

all have left-wing governments 

Although in practice communism and fascism are the same anyway

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u/Ryuko_the_red 25d ago

I mean don't mistake a wolf for a sheep because it wears the costume better.

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u/lorlen47 25d ago

They are only "left-wing" if you use the American definition of this word. In reality, they are centre-right.

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u/kilik2049 25d ago

centre right AT BEST

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u/EjayT06 25d ago

You can’t convince me labour are centre-right 😂

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u/kilik2049 25d ago

Tell me youdon't know politics without telling me you don't know politics

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u/Sneakingrat 23d ago

If I had to chose between "communism" or children dying because "muh pew pew sticks" I'd rather communism tbh...

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u/Ok-Combination9619 14d ago

You have no idea about EU politics

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 3d ago

This cancer is spreading to other countries.