Electronic Frontier Foundation
What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they try to guess your age or take your ID for age verification? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now
So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite prominent cases of sensitive data getting leaked in the process.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Show threadLukefromDC13h ago
@eff The kind that should lead to closing your account and blocking their website entirely
Show threadJoonq13h ago
@eff I still dont get this like for so many years everyone talked like how china is so horrible and athoritarian becouse they monitor everyone online by forcing online IDs and now suddenly it should be ok becouse kids need it? Like was the case that china was always right or is west just becomming authoritarian? I feel very much lied to either way!