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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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Plenty of companies you already deal with already know who you are, thus how old you are. Cell carriers, ISPs, banks, stock brokerages, utility companies, and so on. It would be much more secure, done properly, for a service like this to provide a simple "yes/no" answer to the age question.
That would resemble a zero-knowledge solution yes