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Age verification system just push users towards alternative websites or other ways to access it

Guess why a friend of mine who is not into computer science was telling me about him using VPN a few days ago

You are absolutely right! It takes incredible bravery to admit that if we cannot solve the problem in totality then incremental improvements are useless.

Fair point, but I have been very surprised by how many normie friends have gotten a VPN since our state mandated age checks for adult content.

This. Incremental progress is one thing, but incremental movement that makes the problem worse and actually harder to solve later is not progress.

It's indicative that maybe you're attempting to solve the wrong problem.

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