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Canada, and still not mandatory here apparently. Which is weird because a lot of our automotive requirements do tend to follow the US due to common production lines and other such factors

Are you sure on the TPMS date? I've got a vehicle that's much newer than 2007 that doesn't have it

Yeah IIRC emissions shit was like that. So you can get a truck that weighs 2500kg puts out 158g/km of emissions but not an Asian style mini-truck that weighs only 1500kg and puts out i.e. 130g/km of emissions because it's in the same weight-class as say a Corolla (for which the max emissions might be only i.e. 100g/km)

So the mini truck might produce less pollution than the bigger truck and be perfectly useful for many people, but it's too much PER WEIGHT and thus doesn't qualify under the emissions regulations

Or possibly if a product gets a lot of reviews in a short time, to prevent review bombing

That sounds pretty close to what I'd expect, except for it presumably still being tied to the person overall

I think it's less a matter of "can't" and more a matter of "can't ... be added to bother putting in a significant effort/investment"

I mean, for the most part yes. I'm not even so much concerned about my kids viewing porn, more so than somebody else will make nasty deepfakes of them and post online etc, so age verification won't fix that.

I could see it help with discriminating between people at their "own damn computers" and bots or misinformation/psyops campaigns run out of certain foreign countries though (assuming any ID also ties back to parent country).

So uh, do they have a list of domains that should be blocked then? One that we can check out to... uh... ensure our kids aren't going there and stuff.

You can kinda already do that with parental controls on kids' devices and many routers, as well as services provided by ISP's. In Canada there's also a free national DNS provider that has a tier the filters out known malicious and/or adult sites at the DNS level depending on which hosts you point at.

The ONLY way I could remotely support age verification is if it was anonymized from the individual, similar to how companies like Mullvad do their VPN or with prepaid gift cards etc

You get a card that has a PIN behind a scratch-off section. You can buy the card for cash or order online, but there's nothing tying the buyer to the card.

Age verification can be similar where you go to a registered location, provide valid ID and like $5 to get a scratch off card. The code on the card just validates "user is 18+" but otherwise has no ties back to their actual identity.

If a site wants to do an age check, it can validate the card PIN or on phone potentially scan a 3d barcode behind the scratch-off. Maybe some hash check could be involved to avoid the need for a centralized provider.

That's how I remember it. Cursed Reddit post...

Huh, they spelled cookie wrong and used a "ch" instead of a "k"