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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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[-] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

Do not do this if you play in grey hat territory. You are going to be on a list.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Not sure what you mean by that.

I’m just writing an email to oppose this, my email is not like the above poster. I am just laying out arguments why this is a bad solution and will not work.

Which is what we’re seeing with kids drawing moustaches and borrowing IDs at will.

this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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