Given that VPN services typically require a credit card, and credit cards are unlikely to be available to most minors -- or at least provide plausible deniability to the providers -- this is probably 100% okay with the porn-banning Utahns.
Besides, there are plenty of VPNs that don't require any sort of digital payment. Mullvad somewhat famously accepts cash[1], and they're the whitelabeled service behind a lot of other providers.
I wonder how their business continues to operate if their product is free...
> We have been a public company since 2018. In 2021, Kunlun, a Chinese public company and our largest investor, increased its ownership stake in us beyond 50%, and as a result we became a consolidated subsidiary of the Kunlun group. [...] As of the date of this annual report, Kunlun, a Chinese public company traded on the Shenzhen stock exchange, indirectly owns 55.60% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares. As such, we are a consolidated subsidiary of Kunlun.
If someone has a contact there please tell them to fix it.
Easy, even minors can acquire cash and send (international) envelopes, so send cash over to Mullvad together with your account number and you anonymously get access to a VPN.