The default is for 18+ content to be restricted by UK mobile networks, you will have to contact your network customer service and ask them to remove the restrictions.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Why was Reddit allowed then? And it's even stranger that this was a Vodafone gateway, when I'm not on Vodafone. When I checked which network I was on, it did not even seem to be Vodafone in my phone settings. Anyway, VPNs solve that problem. Seems like the "18+" content policy is applied arbitrarily.
Yeah, it's implemented very poorly, especially since as you have discovered, VPN's completely bypass it and sites like reddit are "acceptable" apparently.
Yup, as per usual, it's just a sort of loose guideline, badly implemented. Which, IMO, is worse, as it will make less technically inclined parents think their children are 'safe' (whatever that means and from what...I don't know), but really, those kids are getting around it in a heartbeat.