Aylo, the company which runs a number of pornographic websites, including Pornhub, is to stop operating in France from Wednesday. It is in reaction to a French law requiring porn sites to take extra steps to verify their users' ages. An Aylo spokesperson said the law was a privacy risk and assessing people's ages should be done at a device level.

Pornhub didn’t immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment but Aylo has previously said the company would like age verification to happen at the device level by companies like Microsoft and Apple.