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This would be better than the face and/or ID-scan by creepy companies every time you want to access whatever is deemed adult. For one it would be privacy-preserving, they wouldn't know who you are or anything other than something basic like an age range which is the ideal.
The tricky part is implementing it in open source software of course. The best thing to do would be to not require that. If kids are clever enough to install Linux to get around their parental controls then let them. But I doubt that will be acceptable. I suppose my idea would be for some sort of hardware, external or internal that does this task with some sort of cryptographic assurance of integrity and a protocol for web sites and programs on the machine to directly query it.
One issue is I can't see things like Graphene or rooted Androids passing the evaluation here so people owning those would be locked out of certain things while trying to use them unless Google implements and they leave intact some high integrity, high assurance hardware based solution they can't tamper with. But given the way Google is going trying to kill other options and lock down their system with mandatory certificates only through them those things may not have long to live anyways.
I'd rather not budge on this at all but the fact is this is happening. It's happening whether you and I want it or hate it. Many places are doing it in a very privacy invasive way that ties identities to actions, speech, thoughts, history on the web which will be used shortly for censorship, oppression, silencing critics, etc. So the chance to push alternative tech that explicitly prevents that via a design that doesn't involve your identity being stored or sent anywhere, just an age signal is one that shouldn't be passed up by anyone who is an enemy of the liberal western system. Because once that's in place the arguments for passing identity betraying laws are a lot weaker and it takes a lot of wind out of their sails and will build further resentment among normal people if rammed through anyways.