Fluxer never asks for ID, selfies, face scans or any other document to prove how old you are, as section 11 of our privacy policy says. Where a law needs an age check that Fluxer doesn't offer, we restrict access to fluxer.com in that region instead.
Today, fluxer.com is unavailable in Mississippi. Age-restricted content is locked in the United Kingdom and Brazil unless you unlock it with an age range from Apple or Google and your date of birth also says you're 18 or older. Unlocking it is always optional.
We only restrict access where we believe a current legal requirement applies to Fluxer. Section 3.2 of our privacy policy lists the age checks we never use, such as ID uploads and biometric scans, and explains how we estimate your region from your IP address.
What happens when a law asks for ID or a face scan?
Fluxer never asks for your ID or a face scan. Where a law needs these checks for adult content, we lock age-restricted communities, channels and media in that region, and where a law needs them for every account, fluxer.com is unavailable in that region.
Can I use Fluxer in Mississippi?
No, fluxer.com is unavailable while your connection appears to come from Mississippi, and you can't register, sign in or use the service. If you already have a Fluxer account, it keeps all its data, and you can use it from any region where fluxer.com is available.
HB 1126 (Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act) requires age verification for every user and parental consent for anyone under the age of 18. In our reading, the law applies to Fluxer because it's a service with communities and channels.
The Fifth Circuit let the law take effect in July 2025, and in August 2025 the Supreme Court declined to block it again. It can be enforced during the constitutional challenge.
Is age-restricted content available in the United Kingdom?
Age-restricted communities, channels and media are locked in the United Kingdom, and you can still register, sign in and use the rest of Fluxer. You can choose to unlock communities and channels marked 18+ in the Fluxer app for iPhone, iPad or Android when an age range from Apple or Google and your date of birth both say you're 18 or older.
The Online Safety Act 2023 has been enforceable since 25 July 2025. It applies to user-to-user services such as Fluxer, where people talk to each other and share content, including in group chats. Part 3 requires highly effective age checks only for certain kinds of harmful content, such as pornography and content that promotes self-harm, so we only restrict age-restricted content and leave the rest of Fluxer open to everyone there.
Is Fluxer blocked in Brazil?
People in Brazil can sign up and use Fluxer, including text chat, voice and video calls and screen sharing. Only age-restricted communities, channels and media are locked there.
Brazil's Digital ECA (Lei 15.211/2025) has been enforceable since 17 March 2026. It covers apps children are likely to use. It requires ages to be confirmed in a way that can be audited and doesn't accept people stating their age, such as typing in a date of birth.
You can choose to unlock communities and channels marked 18+ in the Fluxer app for iPhone, iPad or Android with an age range of 18 or older that Apple or Google already has for your account, as long as the date of birth on your account also says you're 18 or older.
Fluxer never receives an ID, a face photo or a CPF number from this feature. Your account stores only an accepted 18+ result and when we got it. Sharing it with Fluxer is always optional, and our age-range page explains what the apps send.
Some do and some don't, because each law sets out which apps it covers.
Australia's minimum age of 16 for social media, in force since 10 December 2025, leaves out services whose main purpose is messaging or voice calls and video calls, as section 5 of its rules says, and in our reading Fluxer is one of those services.
The UK's Online Safety Act and Brazil's Digital ECA both apply to Fluxer. In the United States, Mississippi's HB 1126 needs age verification for every user, so fluxer.com is unavailable there, and other US state laws are further down this page.
Laws we assessed as not applying
Fluxer is a community chat app without an algorithmic feed, and friend lists are private. It isn't an adult content website and doesn't sell adult content.
For these reasons, several US age verification laws don't apply to Fluxer, and we don't restrict access under the laws in Florida (HB 3), Virginia (SB 854), South Dakota (HB 1053), Wyoming (HB 43), Ohio (ORC 1349.10, via HB 96) or Arizona (HB 2112).
Louisiana's law (Act 456) covers only services with at least five million accounts worldwide. fluxer.com had more than 500,000 accounts in October 2026, far below that, and a federal court has also blocked the law for the companies that sued.
Laws that courts have blocked or that aren't law yet
Courts have blocked the laws in Arkansas (SB 396 / Act 689), Utah (SB 194 / HB 464) and Ohio (HB 33), and we'll reassess if any take effect. An appeals court ruled for Ohio in June 2026, but the law stays blocked while the challengers seek Supreme Court review.
The federal KIDS Act passed the House in June 2026 but isn't law.
Laws we're still assessing
In October 2026, an appeals court overturned the order that blocked Georgia's law (SB 351). Courts have blocked parts of Texas's law (HB 18), including its monitoring and filtering duties, and the rest of that law is in force. Tennessee's law (HB 1891) is in force, and in August 2026 a federal appeals court sent the challenge to it back to the trial court.
We're checking whether the Georgia, Tennessee and Texas laws cover services like Fluxer, and we'll update this page when we've decided about each one.
What is the KIDS Act, and would it apply to Fluxer?
The Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, H.R. 7757, is a federal US bill and a package of several bills about children's safety online. It includes a House version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and changes to US children's privacy law that people call COPPA 2.0. It also has rules for online games, AI chatbots and websites with mostly sexual content.
As of October 2026, only the House has passed it. It passed on 29 June 2026 by 267 votes to 117, and the Senate sent it to its Commerce Committee on 13 July 2026, as the text referred to the Senate shows. The Senate hasn't voted on it, and a bill has to pass both the House and the Senate in the same form before it can become federal law.
Are KOSA and COPPA 2.0 law?
As of October 2026, neither KOSA nor COPPA 2.0 is law, either on its own or as part of the KIDS Act. The original COPPA from 1998, which protects the privacy of children under 13, is law, and Fluxer follows it, as section 11 of our privacy policy says. You need to be at least 13 to use Fluxer, or older where your country sets a higher minimum age.
Would it make Fluxer verify my age?
Not in the text the House passed, because its KOSA part says it doesn't require any service to add age checks. The only age check rule in it covers websites where more than a third of the content is sexual material harmful to minors, and Fluxer isn't a website like that.
Its KOSA part also applies only to apps that, among other things, use your personal information for ads, marketing or recommendations. fluxer.com has no ads or algorithmic feed and doesn't use your personal data or content for advertising or behavioural profiling, as our privacy policy says, so in our reading that part wouldn't apply.
Its COPPA 2.0 part would apply to fluxer.com, because it covers any service that knows or should know that a user is under 18. It would give children under 14 the protections that children under 13 have today, and give teens from 14 to 17 more privacy rights.
Can a US law apply to a Swedish company?
Yes, it can when the company offers its service to people in the United States, and fluxer.com is available there. Fluxer is run by Fluxer Platform AB, a company registered in Sweden, and we follow the US laws that apply to fluxer.com as well as Swedish and EU law. Mississippi is the only US state where fluxer.com is unavailable today.
Could I prove my age without sharing who I am?
Fluxer never asks you to upload proof of your age. Section 11 of our privacy policy rules out ID documents, selfies, face scans and other documents for checking anyone's age.
Zero-knowledge proofs can show that someone is old enough without showing who they are or their date of birth, and so can the age verification app that the European Commission has asked EU countries to make available by 31 December 2026.
Request human review
If you think a restriction was applied by mistake, email privacy@fluxer.com with your username and what happened, and a person on our team will look at it and tell you the outcome. A VPN or an unusual network can make us guess the wrong region.
Can I use Fluxer without depending on fluxer.com?
Yes, you can run Fluxer on your own server for free, because the code is open source under the AGPL. Fluxer doesn't store the accounts, messages or files on an instance it doesn't run. You can also export your data from fluxer.com at any time and keep a copy for yourself.