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I am curious if the ID will be validated somehow or just dates checked. If the former, I wonder of this endpoint would be given to any site owner to validate age. If the latter, I can imagine someone creating a "this ID does not exist" service to fill this need. More likely VPN providers are about to get a bump in clientele.


It would probably be an automatic system somehow just looking at the dates. Imagine someone wanting to watch a video and then submitting their ID and getting the message back "thank you, you will be able to access this content in a few hours once we have verified your ID".

You would have just lost that person for a long time.


In theory, IDs can be verified against government-owned database. That's how online ID verification for payment systems works in Russia.




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