I exclusively access the internet through a VPN, usually in the Netherlands, where as far as I'm aware there have not been any recent changes to age-verification law/policy.
So I'm rather surprised to log in today from my usual server to be asked to verify to view my own damn videos.
It looks like they might have been working on the feature yesterday and accidentally rolled it out everywhere, same thing happened to me in Germany. Seems to be back to normal now. I'm guessing it's still up in the UK though.
Hello! Messmaster (the site admin) just confirmed that he was carrying out some implementation 'prematurely' and that everything should seemingly be back to what it was up to.