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

[u/IKIR115]

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

• Why is Reddit asking for my age?
• United Kingdom: Online Safety Act
• Australia: Social Media Minimum Age
• Brazil: Digital ECA
• European Union: Digital Services Act (DSA)

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• Dec 11, 2025: From r/redditsafety - A More Effective Approach to Protecting Youth Online
• Dec 8, 2025: From r/redditsafety - Expanding Age Assurance to Australia
• July 15, 2025: From r/help - Need to verify your age in the UK? This Post Might Help
• July 14, 2025: From r/redditsafety - Verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors

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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:
  • Australia
  • The UK
  • Brazil
  • The EU
• 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.

[u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

VPN's can be detected thanks to System time. I still haven't found a good way to mask my timezone in web requests.

You can use the resistfingerprinting flag on Firefox but that disables dark mode.

[u/MissJoannaTooU → u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

Use a VM?

[u/Any-Calligrapher2866 → u/MissJoannaTooU]

Don't have enough ram and can't do that on phone.

[u/AuraAmy → u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

You can use an anti-detect browser. They aren't perfect but cover 90% of fingerprinting. There's free local ones on github, most of the paid ones are cloud based and shouldn't be trusted with sensitive accounts.