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I'm a bit of a privacy advocate/cypherpunk and I agree with you.
The problem is companies should never need know this information except what is absolutely necessary for business. Like if they ship you something, they need to know your name and address (and that could even go away with Japan's model where you just give a code and the post office only knows your address, but I digress).
Another thing is that age verification technologies already exist in such a way that the government doesn't know what you're accessing, and the company only knows you're above 18 and nothing else. These are called Zero Knowledge Proofs.
But since the technology exists, the government isn't utilising it, and instead doing some moral panic "Think of the children!!!1" and setting up mass surveillance and data harvesting, I watch what they do, not what they say.