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Adult content blocked on mobile data...
SimonShuttler wrote:I did wonder whether it might be an issue cos my bank card isn’t a credit card. And the screen before says it needs to be a credit card to confirm I’m over 18.
You've answered your own query. However, it goes on to say the following:
If you don't a credit card, don't worry. Please get in touch with us via web chat where we'll just need to confirm you're over 18 through receipt of valid photo ID such as a Passport or Driving Licence.
It didn’t work for me, three different banks, £3 never returned - I guess it could be some sort of spectacularly poorly thought out revenue generator - but probably it just doesn’t work although they keep trying to tell me it was my fault, and that they are protecting the children, although of course they have my date of birth etc… - eventually I made a complaint and they just did it - no explanations and no refund, basically they are a bit useless and their system is half-assed.
Felix_364801 Firstly, you should raise a complaint and ask for your £3 back.
Secondly, anyone can start an account and give a date of birth - you need to back that up with evidence for the adult block to be lifted.
Thirdly, yes they are trying to protect children - goodness knows someone needs to do it these days!
I can never fathom this ... children can access **bleep** all over the place and of the most extreme varieties with no filter at all. There is no consistency ... the banks see themselves as a gatekeeper (to cover their own backs) but the government says carry on regardless. (Off topic, as a septogenarian I believe the human body cannot corrupt human beings as we all have one. What really screws a person's head up is being kept in total ignorance, as my generation were.)
TrevorH_2691686 Just because you say that children can access totally inappropriate content doesn't mean that a provider of mobile data should make it any easier for them.
We should be grateful that some companies are at least trying to stop this and not decry them. I'm not sure it's just the human body - it's extremes and violent material s well.
