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They might not know the list of sites you visit right away in the same way they could by contacting your ISP when you are not using a proxy, but that wasn't my point.
My point is that they can check with a specific site that uses this verification method and see if you have an account on that site, and if you do, which account in particular. And in a way that is much more directly linked to you personally than an IP address (which might be linked to the household/internet access you're using but that isn't necessarily under your name).
So in this situation they can indeed know if you use any one particular site that they choose to target, as long as that site is requiring you to provide them with a document, regardless of how many layers of proxies you (or the site) choose to be under.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the site that’s requesting this", the site does not need to request anything from the government, they just need to have previously agreed on a "secret" mathematical verification method that works for every document. The digital equivalent of a stamp/signature.
But getting that information from the USP or the site would require a warrant. Not to mention that the site doesn't have to know your real identity either.
And the whole point of this exercise is to ensure that you don't have to provide any document to the site.
What I mean by the site that's requesting this, is exactly that: you need to prove to a site that you're above a certain age. For that, the site redirects you to the proxy that redirects you to the eID site, with a request to confirm that you're above a certain age.
The site has fulfilled its legal obligation to check your age, but doesn't have to know your identity, and the government doesn't have to know what site you're visiting.
I feel like you're misunderstanding the scenario we're discussing.