The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes made under the OSA, many children saw age verification as an easy-to-bypass hurdle rather than something that kept them genuinely safe.
A full 46 percent of children even said that age checks were easy to bypass, while just 17 percent said that they were difficult to fool. The methods kids use to fool age gates vary, but most are pretty simple: There’s the classic use of a video game character to fool video selfie systems, while in other instances, children reported just entering a fake birthday or using someone else’s ID card when that was required.
Does anyone find this surprising ?Ask anyone who know how the internet works and most will say this won’t work
In my eyes the only way age verification should work is ensuring random adults are not in kids spaces, but that would mean actually doing things to protect children rather than saying it is meanwhile it’s just to collect data on all of us consumers
Back in the Club Penguin days there were employees in game moderating. Didn’t need to age verify cuz any sus behaviour got banned before it caused harm.
But that costs money.