Das auf Android basierende GrapheneOS verweigert die Altersüberprüfung und verlässt möglicherweise Regionen, die diese durchsetzen

honestly get it from graphenes side. if your privacy OS starts verifying age like a gambling app you’ve kinda defeated the purpose. its not like a vpn that just routes traffic, its a fundamental stance on what data should never be collected

the interesting part is that GrapheneOS is basically calling the bluff on these age verification laws. most governments assume they can just mandate compliance and everyone will figure out the technical details later. but when you’re dealing with a privacy-focused OS where the entire point is minimal data collection, there’s literally no privacy-preserving way to do age verification at scale.

even the „privacy-preserving“ approaches like zero-knowledge proofs still require some form of initial identity verification against government databases, which defeats the whole purpose. you’d have to fundamentally change the OS architecture to accommodate what is essentially surveillance infrastructure.

props to them for taking a principled stance instead of trying to find some technical workaround that would just be security theater anyway

People really need to relearn how to root their phones again. Ten years ago everyone and their mum would swap out ROMs on their phones. Then „the region“ would no longer matter. Grab a phone, slap a different ROM on it and bob’s your uncle. 

My only concern would be the services that have no alternatives, such as banking apps not being available for it.