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@GyrosGeier I see two paths regarding this: 1) The legislative situation remains mostly "as is". As a result, big players in the FOSS world will implement code to formally comply with age verification requirements (like systemd has done). Closed systems (windows, apple, ...) will implement solutions that follow the law but also benefit their data harvesting strategies, i.e. taking age verification rather serious. Politicians will point to big tech complying and be happy. Tech savvy users will find convenient workarounds. The desired results will not manifest. The cycle starts again. 2) Age verification requirements gain more and more popularity among politicians. International law starts to align on this, increasing pressure to not only formally, but actually comply with these new laws. No difference for the big tech companies. FOSS will more and more be forced to make a decision: comply or shut down. Bigger players will comply, small maintainers will give up (as it happened before with other laws). The FOSS community will be poorer for it, the tech companies gain power. Tech savvy users will find less convenient workarounds. The desired results will not manifest. The cycle starts again. Sadly, I see 2 the more likely path