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Re:"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit by danaris on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:45PM (#44905510)
...Unless the government is specifically looking out for this, that's easy to game by just submitting a bunch of requests for age validation with incrementing ages.

Is that worth it? No idea—but I'm willing to bet some surveillance advertisers think it's worth it.

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Re:"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit by Sayrus on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:00PM (#44905639)
I haven't read the spec so I'm not sure if you can request that or only 18+.

However doing dozens of requests requires the user's approval each time which may raise red flags and I can imagine your certificate revoked.

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