Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
We just shipped a new feature in NextDNS: Bypass Age Verification. More and more sites (especially adult ones) are now forcing users to upload IDs or selfies to continue. We think that’s a terrible idea: handing over government documents to random sites is a huge privacy risk. This new setting workarounds those verification flows via DNS tricks. It’s available today to all users, including free accounts. We’re curious how the HN community feels about this. Is it the right way to protect privacy online, or will it just provoke regulators to push harder? https://nextdns.io
NextDNS, a DNS service, has added a feature that bypasses age verification systems used by websites to prevent unauthorized access. The feature works through DNS-level techniques to circumvent verification flows that… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
2019 · nextdns.io · its alternatives →
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Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham:…
2022 · stylometry.net · its alternatives →
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So I'm not an expert in this area, but here's an attempt at cost effective, anonymous, age verification flow that probably covers ~70% of use cases in the United States. The basic premise is to leverage your bank (who already has had to perform KYC on you to open an account) to attest to your age for age-restricted merchant sites (pornhub, gambling, etc) without sharing any more information than necessary. Flow works like this: 1) You go to gambling.com 2) They request you to verify your age 3) You choose "Bank Verification" 4) You trigger a WebAuthn Credential Creation flow 5) gambling.com…
2025 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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This project has been kicking around in my head since I first heard about the webauthn PRF extension in early 2024. I've slowly chipped away at it since, and finally got things to a shareable state over the summer thanks to a very fun parental leave. Headed back to work tomorrow, so I figure there's no time like the present. tldr: A client-held encryption key derived during passkey authentication encrypts all sensitive user data prior to persistence so that only the user is able to decrypt and reuse that data on their device. This allows short-lived, privacy-preserving age proofs to be…
Aug 2026 · loginwithone.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. - Release age v1.0.0 🏁 · FiloSottile/age
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tired of companies snooping through your DNS traffic? Don't you wish you could get advertisements with your DNS records? Today we're introducing the innovative, privacy-focused, ad-supported DNS resolver - DN$! Traditional DNS resolvers provided by your internet service provider, cloudflare, or google could be tracking your internet activity and selling it to third-party data vendors. We at DN$ want to fix that and cut out these nefarious actors (until we've amassed a critical number of users to exploit). In order to support such a radically new business model, our service needs to serve…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I miss the old web. As a kid I could type in "a/s/l" in AOL messenger and chat with someone my own age, without worrying about the dangers that lurk on the web today. After seeing what happened to Omegle, a question stuck: is there a simple way to do age verification that both keeps people safe and doesn't contribute to a surveillance state? After a year of hard work, that question resulted in AGEWARDEN. Each part of the service puts people first. No tracking, nothing stored (it's more difficult these days to NOT collect data :smh:). Please give it a try if you have a moment…
Jun 2026 · agewarden.ai · its alternatives →
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Every privacy-focused DNS service requires an account: NextDNS, Cloudflare for Families, Apple's iCloud Private Relay (paid, iOS-only). The protocol that doesn’t require one - ODoH - had basically one well-known public relay operator (Frank Denis on Fastly Compute, default in dnscrypt-proxy). I built a second one and the client to talk to it.
May 2026 · numa.rs · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Lukas Dickie the founder of Changefly and I’m truly excited to share with you our latest release of Changefly ID with Anonymized Identity & Age Verification. By putting privacy first and using a novel approach to account protection, Changefly ID offers a path to a safer, more secure, and less-intrusive internet for everyone: - Changefly ID for anonymous authentication + ANONYMIZED identity & age verification for services that are required to verify minimum age - Zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, temporary unique identifiers - Protects against bot attacks, bot…
2025 · changefly.com · its alternatives →
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Next DNS▲9Block ads, trackers, and malicious websites. Out of beta now
2020 · nextdns.io · its alternatives →
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Verify users globally in as little as 10 seconds
2022 · plaid.com · its alternatives →
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My goal was to create a DNS server as simple as the LDAP server I've been contributing to (glauth) and here it is: https://github.com/fusion/kittendns A few things to know about it: - It is easy to configure using a Toml file - I am using it to bail my coredns/etcd instances when under attack - (yes, it also works as a service location server) - It comes with a simple, plain English, rule engine that doesn't do much at this point - It can be used with LetsEncrypt. I use it to retrieve certificates for my home servers. - RFC: all the nice ones :) Anyway, feedback is…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Berbix▲108Instant ID checks to fight fraud and stay compliant
2019 · gavangtvttbdc.tv · its alternatives →
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2012 · millionshort.com · its alternatives →
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This site was set up in response to the HN story about a site getting taken down by another site that had the gall to plagiarize it then issue a DMCA. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5174121
2013 · dmcainjury.com · its alternatives →
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DNS cleanup is security. We help you automate it.
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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I wrote a small Chrome extension that allows the user to replace all usernames on Hacker News with either the string `anonymous` or a deterministic hashed value.
2023 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · privacy-dns.pw · its alternatives →
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Passbase▲24Verify your user’s true identity in seconds
2019 · parallelmarkets.com · its alternatives →
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