[SoftTalker]

I'm in a state that PornHub and most of the other adult sites will block due to age restriction laws. I'm not going to make a login, or give them my ID, and I'm not motivated enough to use a VPN or otherwise work around the restrictions... so I guess the law achieved its goals. I don't think I'd bend over backwards to keep access to social media either. It's really not that important.

[tencentshill]

They can have the proof that the person accessing a given site is of age, but they don't ever get to know who.

[munksbeer]

That includes hackernews right?

[SoftTalker]

I would say yes. I would not give Ycombinator my ID to be able to post here.

If they decided this site was for 16+ or whatever, and there was some privacy-preserving way to prove that, I might consider it. But not by sending them my driver's license.

[kevin_thibedeau]

You won't be sending ID to site operators. It all gets hoovered up by third party identity verifiers who can suffer a breach at any time.