It’s the best option I can think of, no privacy invasive stuff etc. My only concern would be if it’s good enough. My only problem is that it requires you to have a credit card.
My money’s on this being implemented as a compromise/capitulation to the payment processors Valve’s feuded with. Visa and MasterCard probably asked for this.
Oh 100%. But I guess this is sort of a liability thing, Valve saying “Look. We want to sell the porn games and Postal 2 either way. But we’ll verify the customers so you wont get heat for ‘handling the transactions of minors’.”
There should be age walls for some stuff. What that stuff is and how the walls work is up for debate.
In this situation (a store) using a payment method as the age wall works well. In other use cases it would not be as good.
If you could pass an age wall with no privacy loss, then most people wouldn’t have a problem with it (other than mild annoyance)
IMO: the new law is overreaching, they needed to set up privacy protecting ID verification system first if they were going to go that far. It’s an own goal so far…
I disagree with that. Privacy is not the only reason to be against agewalls, though in its current form, it is a big one. Agewalls are inherently discriminatory, and there is no reason children should not see sexual, mental health support, or LGBT+ content online besides puritanism.
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It’s the best option I can think of, no privacy invasive stuff etc. My only concern would be if it’s good enough. My only problem is that it requires you to have a credit card.
My money’s on this being implemented as a compromise/capitulation to the payment processors Valve’s feuded with. Visa and MasterCard probably asked for this.
Ironically, this means that they are more likely to be used to pay for porn games though…
Oh 100%. But I guess this is sort of a liability thing, Valve saying “Look. We want to sell the porn games and Postal 2 either way. But we’ll verify the customers so you wont get heat for ‘handling the transactions of minors’.”
B seems like a huge issue given that there are lots of adults who are not eligible for a credit card.
The best option is no agewalls
There should be age walls for some stuff. What that stuff is and how the walls work is up for debate.
In this situation (a store) using a payment method as the age wall works well. In other use cases it would not be as good.
If you could pass an age wall with no privacy loss, then most people wouldn’t have a problem with it (other than mild annoyance)
IMO: the new law is overreaching, they needed to set up privacy protecting ID verification system first if they were going to go that far. It’s an own goal so far…
I disagree with that. Privacy is not the only reason to be against agewalls, though in its current form, it is a big one. Agewalls are inherently discriminatory, and there is no reason children should not see sexual, mental health support, or LGBT+ content online besides puritanism.