Age verification has been put into law across the world over the last year. Apple doesn’t have a choice.

Apple has to do age verification because of dumb laws, but they decided to do age verification in a dumb way.

The author tried to go along with the age verification system with five different cards and failed five times. For an account that's older than the legal age that would need to be verified in the first place, mind you.

There are many ways to do age verification, most of them bad, but that's why most companies complying with these laws use multiple methods.

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catapart a day ago | parent [-]

nevermind the apologist. his paycheck is paid by people that have capitulated to the same bullshit. and you know what they say about people learning lessons whom have a financial incentive not to.

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pfraze a day ago | parent [-]

Indeed. There has been zero political opposition to these laws. Apple isn’t going to pay the fines on our behalf, so we need to get organizing if we don’t like this.

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catapart a day ago | parent [-]

ah, yeah; I guess organization looks like complete capitulation and then commenting on the effect elsewhere with a sturdy shrug "whatcha gonna do? we're all just so powerless". fighting the good fight.

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pfraze a day ago | parent [-]

I’ve never felt so motivated to fight on your behalf

	▲	catapart a day ago \| parent [-]
		ah, cool! great to have such a loyal ally that snark and cynicism wilts their enthusiasm to such an extent. how would we ever get rid of age verification laws without your "dropped at the first sign of someone not being nice to me" supportive commentary and shrugs?

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jedahan a day ago | parent | prev [-]

They certainly have more choices than implementing in this manner, and can choose to not implement it as well.

Absolving Apple of responsibility gives more than they deserve.

	▲	pfraze a day ago \| parent [-]
		They actually have very few choices, and they had only a few months to get it done. Just like the rest of us.