Folks, this is coming from your government. The phone makers want nothing to do with it and are actively fighting it in court as best they can. Switching between phone makers will not help, and is not the right place to put your energy. Address your concerns to your governments.

The phone makers want your data just as much as the government does. Data is money and power.

They have other ways of determining your age without requiring an extremely unpopular ID check.

Some are accepting having a credit card in Wallet as proof of age, as well as simply having an old enough Apple account

My Apple account is only like a decade old but if YouTube asks me for age verification I’m gonna be writing them a sternly worded letter because my account is old enough to buy alcohol in my country