The Strange Shift in UK Adult Traffic after the Online Safety Act (youtube.com)
There is an assumption Brits just don't care about their privacy ‘and that’s just not correct'. The data might show that while normal people say ‘I don’t care about my privacy, let them look, I have nothing to hide,' their actual behavior shows they actually do want to protect their privacy.
So, publicly, people might not be willing to oppose privacy invading policy or tools, privately they will try to avoid them.
Sites that ignored the government's new age verification laws (14 sites out of the top 90) had huge increases in UK traffic. Smaller, less moderated, more risky perhaps. Sites hosted outside of the UK won't be daunted. VPN usage spiked also to over 1m users per day (70m brits).