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> Absolutely not! The moment you have universal state-issued identity, you will be expected to provide it for everything, including tons of stuff that doesn’t require identity.

Indeed this has happened in Denmark already where for example DBA (Danish version of ebay) started soft-mandating MitID verification. Soon to be actually mandatory.

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At one point I was researching using the Norwegian BankID system to ensure that accounts where real people. The pricing model didn't make that look like a reasonable choice. While I'm not surprised an eBay like service would be fine to pay to combat fraud. For a lot of offerings, paying the cost of using such services will not be worth it.

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