Voice Age Verification
I miss the old web. As a kid I could type in "a/s/l" in AOL messenger and chat with someone my own age, without worrying about the dangers that lurk on the web today. After seeing what happened to Omegle, a question stuck: is there a simple way to do age verification that both keeps people safe and doesn't contribute to a surveillance state? After a year of hard work, that question resulted in AGEWARDEN. Each part of the service puts people first. No tracking, nothing stored (it's more difficult these days to NOT collect data :smh:). Please give it a try if you have a moment…
Voice Age Verification launched on June 16, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,599 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
AGEWARDEN determines whether a visitor is above or below the age of 18, from a few seconds of voice. No IDs. No facial scans. Audio never retained.
From a few seconds of speech, AGEWARDEN determines whether a visitor is above or below the age of 18. Nothing that identifies a person is ever kept. A visitor taps a button, speaks for a few seconds, and the website receives a decision. No government ID. No facial scan. No account. The interaction takes under thirty seconds and works on any device with a microphone. It runs inside a sandboxed iframe, so your site never touches the voice data. We process it, return the result, and delete everything within an hour. Age verification is fast becoming a requirement online. US states, the UK, the EU, and Australia now demand more than a checkbox. The question is not whether to verify, but how. ID…from agewarden.ai
In the maker’s words, at launch
I miss the old web. As a kid I could type in "a/s/l" in AOL messenger and chat with someone my own age, without worrying about the dangers that lurk on the web today. After seeing what happened to Omegle, a question stuck: is there a simple way to do age verification that both keeps people safe and doesn't…
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all alternatives →- NANextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"2025 · ▲537
We just shipped a new feature in NextDNS: Bypass Age Verification. More and more sites (especially adult ones) are now forcing users to upload IDs or selfies to continue. We think that’s a terrible idea: handing over government documents to random sites is a huge privacy risk. This new setting workarounds those verification flows via DNS tricks. It’s available today to all users, including free accounts. We’re curious how the HN community feels about this. Is it the right way to protect privacy online, or will it just provoke regulators to push harder? https://nextdns.io
Anonymous Age Verification2025 · gist.github.com · ▲71So I'm not an expert in this area, but here's an attempt at cost effective, anonymous, age verification flow that probably covers ~70% of use cases in the United States. The basic premise is to leverage your bank (who already has had to perform KYC on you to open an account) to attest to your age for age-restricted merchant sites (pornhub, gambling, etc) without sharing any more information than necessary. Flow works like this: 1) You go to gambling.com 2) They request you to verify your age 3) You choose "Bank Verification" 4) You trigger a WebAuthn Credential Creation flow 5) gambling.com…
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