https://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20031018

Ironically the teen depicted in that comic would be in their late
30’s by now… and still fail the ‘age screening’… ^_-

Whatever they come up with, under age people will find a way to
defeat it, probably by ‘borrowing’ an older person’s identity.

At the same time it will probably make enough older people
decide it’s not worth the extra effort.

So the net result is ‘adult content’ will end up with a _higher_
percentage of under age viewers as that’s the only demographic
that will put in the effort to jump through the hoops.

So Pornhub probably got it right by just blocking everyone in
states that required age verification. ‘We are assuming everyone
in the state of Texas is 17 and under’. ^_^ (Never mind that most
‘geolocation services’ are garbage…as keeps coming up on the
NANOG mailing list.)

Maybe they could just require that all adult content only be
distributed on VHS format…I’m pretty sure everyone that still
has a working VHS machine is of age by now. ^_-

JK, that would just create a black market to supply refurbished
VCRs to teenagers…