[engelo_b]

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[consumer451]

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...

[brian-armstrong]

It seems unlikely that "is user adult" is not already easily modeled by any of these companies to within a very high degree of confidence. Even 15 or 20 years ago Google search could bracket your age pretty effectively. It doesn't seem like this adds metadata that wasn't already there.

[extraduder_ire]

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.

[tentacleuno]

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.