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Age verification
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Age verification, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Must scroll through many years to select a birth date2026-04-12
- Age verification screens designed to be annoying so parents just click through2026-03-14
- Consent prompts are annoying and people just click through them2023-05-03
- Age gate is easily bypassed, so it is deceptive and pointless for users2014-07-19