To be clear, I’m not advocating for online age verification. I’m very much against it in any form. I’m just curious from a technical standpoint if it’s possible somehow to construct an accurate age verification system that doesn’t compromise a user’s privacy? i.e., it doesn’t expose the person’s identity to anyone nor leaves behind a paper trail that can be traced to that person?
Even if it works, it’s a solution without a problem. If I can afford internet access, I am mature enough to see anything on the internet, and I am mature enough to decide which users can access my internet-connected network and whether they can have access to the whole internet. That’s all the age verification needed ever.
The request for age verification by each website is purely about unnecessary control and censorship.
Internet access is like $1 in most countries (Sim card data).
I don’t know about you, but the tooth fairy gave me enough money to pay for internet access before my skull was old enough to finish growing adult teeth…