alt Hacker Newsthe cat-and-mouse game of digital age verification is such a massive compliance headache. if these guards are this easy to bypass the platforms are basically just checking a box to satisfy regulators while leaving the actual liability wide open. it’s hard to underwrite trust when the verification layer is this brittle.
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consumer451 • yesterday at 11:33 PM
There is a way to do this, where nearly everyone is fine.[0]
However, the orgs don’t get to capture verified adult user identity to pad the value of their user data profiles…
[0] https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-gl...
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tentacleuno • yesterday at 11:32 PM
It was never going to be perfect. I suspect the goal with things like these is to add additional friction to the process, to make it much harder for the general population to bypass them.
I prefer if it's pretty easy to bypass, if it's going to be law at all. My favourite example of this so far is how bluesky handles it.
https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528...
The official app/client is 100% legally compliant in its unmodified state. But doing something like using another client, having your PDS say you're age verified, or using a ublock origin rule to change where the geolocation API thinks you are completely sidestep it.