> You're doing the thing where you hold age-verified requests to an unreasonably high standard of privacy, ignoring the status quo.

There is a lot of this going on in this thread and frankly it is quite frustrating. Texas and France are two jurisdictions I know implemented privacy laws and now porn websites are collecting PII. I know this because when I traveled to Europe, my account on an adult website (gasp, yes I admit to having one) started asking me for ID. When I tried to proceed through verification with their chosen third party *the flow requested a video of my face*. Yuck. When I got back the US, it was still requesting face verification. I talked to support and, basically, once I used a French SIM card it "blew a verification fuse" and the only way to get my account back was to send that video of my face. I found this unacceptable, so I abandoned my account.

If we refuse to find a workable solution that respects privacy and is based in open standards, we are going to cede this space to private third party companies.