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by thecatapps 1 day ago
While you're 100% correct, I'm not holding my breath on that remaining infrastructure being available anytime soon.

I was expecting, at the very least, to see Apple make their App Store 18+ checks available to developers at WWDC this year. Yet, there's still nothing except the self-reported (useless) "Declared Age Range." Apple has the best integration story of all of them, and could bring it to their entire ecosystem (native iOS apps, mobile Safari, all of MacOS), yet they haven't. Why?

Also, nothing comes to mind regarding browsers, android devices, or non-mobile devices. As far as I'm aware, no one seems to be in a rush to make this available. With non-Apple hardware, I can see it being trickier, but still, I haven't seen many (any) attempts. Why?

It probably doesn't help that many don't see the difference between "deep-state surveillance digital ID verification" and privacy-preserving ZKPs to verify age.

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> the difference between "deep-state surveillance digital ID verification" and privacy-preserving ZKPs to verify age

Agreed.

> Also, nothing comes to mind regarding browsers, android devices, or non-mobile devices. As far as I'm aware, no one seems to be in a rush to make this available.

Exactly, it doesn't benefit companies to NOT know as much about you as possible. Reminded me of this: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...