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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/PerxJamz on 2025-11-08 15:11:09+00:00.

For those unaware the UK introduced the online safety act recently which requires websites to verify age for a variety of content (including outside NSFW). Various websites now simply do not show sensitive content to UK users anymore, others request ID (via dubious ID verification providers), or outright geoblock the UK.

To work around this I’ve been adding relevant hostnames to a mikrotik list that selectively routes affected services via a VPN, but this is growing quite tedious as you need to add the site once you learn that it is restricted, and often several subhosts (mikrotik lists don’t seem to support wildcards on domain names).

I also set up NextDNS which seems to use some routing tickery to get around some (but not all) of such restrictions.

I was wondering if anyone else has a better solution besides enabling VPN for all traffic, or is aware of a list of sites/hostnames that are employing some type of restriction on UK users so I could set up some process to dynamically add these to list.