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anal_reactor | on: European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
> only with Android or iOS

99% of people understand this as "you need a smartphone" which is not a problem in 2026, even for the elderly.

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roundabout-host | parent
"only if you choose to share your personal data with either Google or Apple"?
anal_reactor | root | parent
How is that different from having a banking app installed? Or a government ID app?
kevin_thibedeau | root | parent | next
I have neither. Phones are too much of a security liability to be linked into such sensitive realms of personal life.
roundabout-host | root | parent | next
What you can do with the ID app, you can also do on paper (if not with a Web service), except "age verification".
afandian | root | parent
You can survive and be exist in society without both.