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This is only an issue if it's the only way of verifying your age. If it's still accessible to everyone and this makes it significantly easier for 99.9999999% of people then why not?

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Easier than… not using age verification ?

It's not like it's a feature for you the end user, it doesn't solve any of your problems, on the contrary, it creates new ones.

So we should just let children order alcohol and cigarettes online then?

With whom credit card, to whom mailbox, on whom device ?

Does Roblox sell them ? If no it's a non sequitur.

How much of a problem is the online availability of alcohol or cigarettes in the health of children ?

"We" should not be involved in the raising of strangers children. This perspective is one of the oddest to creep out of modernity.

Well, the plan is for it to be the only one. And even if it isn't, what's the alternative? Persona again? No thanks. They could have helped and made an alternative version of this system which used the ID chip plugged into a desktop PC, but they intentionally won't do so.

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