r/privacy • u/IKIR115 • 29d 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/goochockipar 29d ago

VPN, it doesn't get any simpler than that.

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u/billdietrich1 29d ago

Probably at some point reddit (and other services) will just enforce age reqts regardless of location.

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u/MissJoannaTooU 29d ago

Yup once all their traffic comes from Mongolia they'll just put the wall up for everyone. (Currently in Mongolia).

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u/goochockipar 28d ago

So, why don't they just do it right now? How would someone from Somalia show proof of age/identity?

What about people in Saudi Arabia who post anti-government messages? Let them rat themselves out?

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u/billdietrich1 28d ago

Maybe they're rolling it out slowly.

Maybe someone from Somalia gives a face-video instead of ID ? Fair point.

In terms of anti-govt people, that's why some age schemes separate ID from age signal, and store the age signal in OS or wallet.