XGroovy.com is a porn tube site that is now self blocked to UK users, but unrestricted via VPN. Ofcom have now fined the website £730,000+ for a now ended period when the website was available without ID/age verification. Ofcom explain:
On 11th September 2025 Ofcom opened its investigation into XGroovy.com. On 3 September 2026 we issued the provider of X groovy.com with a Confirmation Decision in
relation to its failure to comply with section 12 of the Act requiring ID/age verification for pornographic sites and its failure to comply with a statutory information request. We are imposing a penalty on the provider of
Xgroovy[dot]com of £700,000 in respect of the contravention of section 12. Ofcom has also determined that the provider of X groovy[dot]com has failed to comply with
section 102(8) of the Act by failing to respond to a statutory request for information within the specified time frame issued as part of the investigation. We have imposed a penalty of £30,000 in respect of the breach of section
102(8)(a). Should Xgroovy continue to fail to comply with this requirement, a daily rate penalty of £200 per day will be imposed starting from 3 September 2026 until the section 102(8) duty is complied with or 3 November 2026, whichever is sooner.
In addition Ofcom have progressed censorship investigations of two companies. Both are now on notice of enforcement action. The Cyberitic LLC is now blocked to all UK viewers.
The Czech company ZD Media c.r.o. has several adult sites which now require UK viewers to submit to ID/age verification:
- www.hello.porn
- www.homo.xxx
- www.max.porn
- www.ok.porn
- www.ok.xxx
- www.perfectgirls.xxx
- www.pin.porn
- www.pornhat.com
- www.pornhat.one
- www.pornstars.tube
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