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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
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[โ€“] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Combine both and demand parental controls for devices and services. The isp is paid for by an adult that's the only age check websites should need. Parents should have easily accessible tools to mark a os or browser as used by a minor.

[โ€“] p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Wifi/router side parental controls are laughably easy to get around