[pornel]

And prove you're not a child by handing over your ID or selfie to a company that Values Your Privacy according to their price list.

Microsoft will snitch your Windows install GUID when you connect through a VPN.

If you make your connection too anonymous, Google's recaptcha will not let your through until you use your mobile phone to prove your humanity, which knows your phone number (which in many countries can't be obtained anonymously, you burner-phone terrorist).

[metoobruh]

It only ends when heads start rolling, and/or bodies start hanging from lampposts. There's no voting your way out of dystopia.

[rsync]

"... prove you're not a child by handing over your ID ..."

Anecdote: I just created an API access account at openAI, for a business I own, two weeks ago, with no identification check of any kind.

No human name is anywhere on the account.