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Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache (www.theregister.com)
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The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes made under the OSA, many children saw age verification as an easy-to-bypass hurdle rather than something that kept them genuinely safe.

A full 46 percent of children even said that age checks were easy to bypass, while just 17 percent said that they were difficult to fool. The methods kids use to fool age gates vary, but most are pretty simple: There's the classic use of a video game character to fool video selfie systems, while in other instances, children reported just entering a fake birthday or using someone else's ID card when that was required.

Does anyone find this surprising ?Ask anyone who know how the internet works and most will say this won't work

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[–] alakey@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

Except the way it's done means everyone on the internet is by default a child, including the pedophiles. There isn't a single purpose for the age checks, it's useful for (wannabe) authoritarians, its profitable for the companies, it's convenient for child abusers, it's data galore for 3 letter agencies etc. The current big wave of it is known to be sponsored by the american megacorpos, so pretty much all the reasons apply.