Related: this[1] current article/thread about privacy-preserving age verification.

The author here seems to be commenting specifically on the type of anonymity-breaking age assurance widely being utilized along with the vaguely justified social media bans. Given the right technology to prove an age threshold but while preserving anonymity I'd be curious how their thoughts would change.

For example, we've never seen people critiquing the naive kind of 'Are you over 18?' prompts seen on ye olde Reddit or adult sites, precisely because those weren't breaking anonymity or leaking any trackable identifiers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229953

I'm in the same boat as OP.

The question I'd ask myself is; who would _I_ trust to implement privacy preserving verification?

The only answer I can come up with right now is; myself. I would trust myself.