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Comment by fluoridation

1 day ago

You're proposing that every porn site on the planet pings a user's government's API to see if they're adult or not? In other words, that any random site is able to contact hundreds of APIs.

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9dev  1 day ago

Absolutely, yes. They don’t ping to see that you are of age, but that the random challenge generated by your ID checks out.

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