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I understand why people are upset, but isn't the operating system asking the user for age and then that age being used to get through service age gated the better path forward?
I would much rather be able to tell my computer I'm an adult and be able to go to an adult site and have it use that instead of the adult site having to handle the load of age verification. If the age is set per-user, kid profiles and parent profiles can both work to limit content for kids without impacting what the parents see. Hell, even just not having to click through those stupid steam prompts every time I look at a game with an m rating or whatever would be awesome. Especially since my account is over 18yo on its own...
The better path forward is to drop all this age verification bullshit. Completely and fully stop. NONE of it is needed. NONE of it.