MindGeek, a privately owned company headquartered in Luxembourg, was founded in 2004. The company operates as a global pornographic website operator and maintains a major in-house technology development team.
Ohio's legislature advanced a second attempt to mandate age verification for adult websites on March 24, 2026, seeking to close legal avenues that allowed platforms to bypass previous requirements. This follows Pornhub's restriction of Australian users from accessing explicit content on March 14, as new federal age verification rules came into force, sparking debate about online safety and privacy. Aylo, Pornhub's parent company, introduced these restrictions days before the digital safety codes overseen by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner took effect on March 9, replacing a system where platforms only required users to click a yes/no button to confirm they were over 18. Following these content cuts, VPN services saw an explosion in popularity among Australian users seeking to circumvent the blocks. Earlier, on March 10, Ohio lawmakers initiated efforts to eliminate a loophole in the state’s existing age verification law, which requires pornographic websites and other online platforms hosting "obscene or harmful to juveniles" content to verify visitors are adults.
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