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The point is, that you are not supposed to be able to browse for adult content, without having an account.

Selecting tag adult in browse should not change this. It suddenly ignores, wether you are logged in or not, and if you are logged in, wether or not you have opted in for adult stuff.

In other words, the itch browse feature should under no circumstances provide users with the direct links needed to access adult content. Except if they are logged in and opted in. 

that is not correct, you can search for the same content using another search engine like google.

for example, take the name of a game with adult content and google with site itch.io and you will find it (with or without an itch account)

What I understand is that the idea of hiding the content and having a warning window is to prevent someone from mistakenly accessing said content, not that it is blocked.

It seems to me that the system works perfectly for what has been said, which is to hide the content, but not block it.

You could further limit access to such content, but that is a decision of the itch administration.

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Did you misread the highlighted browse?  That was not the verb for using your browser. That was a reference to the feature right next to the itch icon. It is called Browse.

Browsing for direct links elsewhere is not the issue.  The issue is, that you can get those direct links with itch's browse feature, without opted in. The correct behaviour would be to display nothing  or  a page that you need an account and not just show the goods. (In the case that all games tagged adult would be marked adult. I can not verify that. But I doubt that it is congruent, as the "sex" tag example showed.)

I think we are going around unnecessary, because as I already mentioned, this could be an error or a feature added to make it work like this and the only one who can clarify this aspect is the administrator.