We live in the UK. She didn’t go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the “old.Reddit” trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end

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    “Estimate age from selfie”?! Wtf have we become…

    When I was 14, I looked like I was 20. When I was 20, I looked like I was 35. When I was 35, I looked like I was 50. You can’t determine someone’s actual age from a fucking photo. Jesus.

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      7 hours ago

      Reddit doesn’t really care; they’re going to do the bare minimum legally so they can feed more ads and get more clicks.

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        You nees to do a video looking left, right, saying some numbers. The companies that do the verification are owned by Peter thiell and co

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      When I was working at a local supermarket, we had the instructions to explicitly ask anyone for ID that we deemed 40 or younger, when they tried to buy tobacco or alcohol. For that exact reason.