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by Aurornis 54 days ago
This is an interesting comment because there’s a parallel effort to shift age verification to devices, which draws a lot of hate here.
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Because almost universally it's not an privacy-preserving age verification, but permanently deanonyming identification.

Please, let's keep it accurate.

> permanently deanonyming identification

As is showing your ID to a bartender.

That is temporary deanonyming identification. Bartender is pretty much guaranteed to forget in 10 minutes.
Bartender forgets my name the moment I put my ID away. He doesn't write it down to sell it later to the advertisers.