From the bottom of: https://reclaimthenet.org/age-verification

The alternative to put forward:

Strong privacy laws that stop companies from collecting data in the first place. Device-level parental controls that keep decision-making with families. Digital literacy education. These approaches target the actual problem without building a surveillance infrastructure that affects everyone.

There are supposed to be privacy laws in the EU. Unfortunately, the biggest violations of these laws are made by the governments and their agencies. Maybe it is energy better spent if we just keep developing encryption and boosting anonymity in a way that intrinsically cuts out the overlord: disrupt their games rather than playing along.