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>These laws will certainly take care of age gating the decent, well-willing websites

Lol they won't. dark IDs or just AI altering their IDs, the second france enforces such law there will be some entrepreneur that makes an AI bot that accepts your ID and then changes the DOB and then spits out the video/images for KYC.

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Use the national ID that surely has a digital DB, and make the check against those, which unless some corrupt officials has edit rights to, won't allow those simple bypasses.

Assuming they can check EU wide, since france is party to treaties allowing mostly free migration throughout the EU to France and recognizes the authenticity of those EU nation states IDs for commerce and domicile in France.

Well, the mentioned credit card checks would be applicable regardless of your residency/citizenship, so if you're visiting France and try to browse Pornhub, you'd be required to provide CC details for the verification, is my understanding at least

Or you have a ID issued by France, and you'll use that.

Besides, heavily depends on how the verification services implement their checks. Whenever I (Spanish resident, Swedish citizen) end up having to do verification checks for some EU/Spanish service, they usually have more or less every type of ID I could have been using available.

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