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Comment by k33n

13 days ago

Age verification itself isn't such a bad thing. I feel most people are more angry about having to verify their actual identity. Every ad provider knows your address and complete identity every time you log into anything though. I guess its the illusion of anonymity that's so popular.

Age verification is an excuse for identity checking.

  • I remember when people who used this site were rational experts. The emotional outbursts here are a bit disappointing.

Horseshit.

There's often a degree of uncertainty with the data advertisers have. This would heavily reduce that uncertainty and enable worse behavior on the part of advertisers.