To be clear, I'm not advocating for online age verification. I'm very much against it in any form. I'm just curious from a technical standpoint if it's possible somehow to construct an accurate age verification system that doesn't compromise a user's privacy? i.e., it doesn't expose the person's identity to anyone nor leaves behind a paper trail that can be traced to that person?

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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Yes. There are many solutions.

Maybe the absolutely easiest to implement is just a signed message from an authority (gov.). You click a button on the website that requires verification, get a new tab to a gov. site with no identifiers from the site redirecting you and get a message you copy. The copied message is then pasted in to the site requiring verification. The site can then verify the message at their servers.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Hey benign and honorable govt!

    Please tell the website "kill-your-govt .net" that I am old enough to join the revolution!!!

    Kthxbai

    edit: if this was pasted in both directions AND we trust that there is no identifying information in either 'secret' message, might work. Normies will not like the ctrl-c/ctrl-v workflow though.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    How about

    Middleman anonimizer, pornhub sends the message to a middleman, the middleman puts its own token on the request, sends that to the gov, the gov responds yes/no to the middleman on the authenticity of the message, the middleman forwards the response to pornhub. The gov doesn't see pornhub, pornhub only gets the yes/no response, the middleman only sees the message with no ID and the response as well as the site.

    Requires a separate middleman maintained by who the fuck knows. Pornhub keeps your IP, the gov keeps your name, the middleman only knows the number of visitors on pornhub.

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