Right, but minors can still be authorized users on credit cards. Also, parents use their own credit cards to pay for their kid's games all the time. A credit card just doesn't seem like a reliable method of age verification.
Its no less reliable than most of the age verification processes these governments/companies keep pushing.
You are already putting more thought into it than they are, considering the UK already tried to punish websites for complying because it immediately backfired.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this, what about a credit card identifies you as an adult where a debit card doesn't?
Right, but minors can still be authorized users on credit cards. Also, parents use their own credit cards to pay for their kid's games all the time. A credit card just doesn't seem like a reliable method of age verification.
Its no less reliable than most of the age verification processes these governments/companies keep pushing.
You are already putting more thought into it than they are, considering the UK already tried to punish websites for complying because it immediately backfired.