Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.

Another good day to be on Lemmy... until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.

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[–] 9 points 2 months ago

There are many who think there's no sufficiently secure, risk-free way to do that verification.

See this write-up about the EU wallet: https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/-/work_items/13

Or Cory Doctorow on Age Verification of any kind: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/

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