The UK's new online safety rules, requiring age verification, are easily bypassed. A gamer discovered that using Death Stranding's photo mode with Sam Bridges' face fools facial recognition systems on platforms like Reddit and Discord. This method avoids sharing personal data or using VPNs, successfully bypassing age gates on k-ID and Persona systems, but not Yoti, used by Bluesky and potentially Instagram.

Prepared by Jonathan Pierce and reviewed by editorial team.