[Canada]

Which is why you will need to provide a cryptographically secure identity credential issued by the government, and you will need to re-verify at regular intervals, not just upload a JPEG.

Make no mistake, the plan is to require 'KYC' for Google, reddit, Facebook, X soon and all that and then later require it for all web sites, even this one.

Australia recently passed a law requiring Google to KYC Australian account holders to check ages to decide if the user will be allowed to control the "safe search" setting.

[hellojesus]

Why don't users just share passwords? Assuming no credit cards attached to the account, serms no reason not to.

[Canada]

Have you tried that with Google accounts now? They'll logout all your sessions and force extra authentication to get back in.

There will always be something you could maybe do as a workaround, but they are going to make it extremely hard.