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Sports betting ads require age-gated users — likely the real driver. There's a bipartisan bill in committee (S.5090) to route age signals through the OS instead, so apps don't have to run their own surveillance. https://www.thebluf.news/p/digital-age-assurance-act-grapheneos-account-mandate

“Self reported”, so just as functional as the “check this box if you are over NN age”. What is the point of all this work for a meaningless verification?

S.5090 explicitly allows self-reported birth dates — it bars requiring ID or biometrics. The mechanism is an age bracket the OS passes to apps; no one verifies the original date. Whether that unverified bracket justifies the account mandate is what the bill doesn't resolve.

'Account signals', i.e. they monitor all your inputs and apply 'AI' to determine your age. They monitor. All. Your. Inputs. Discord is a scraping app.

Is it inputs into the program itself, or all inputs of the computer? That seems important

Whoooooouat it's not about child safety, who would have thunk.