It is 100% to collect data and correlate online activities with a real person. Its sole purpose is to track and control people. Billionaires will stop at nothing to suck more riches out of the working class and poor.

The converse of that is also true where legitimate websites mark your order as fraud just because you used a VPN when placing the order.

This bullshit age verification doesn’t solve anything. All it does is bring circumvention measures to users’ attention and they go around it. Then these idiots wonder why it didn’t work. It is a pointless, wasteful exercise.

I wouldn’t expect nor accept any less. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree of greed.

This is exactly why they don’t want people to disconnect from the Internet. More eyes on things constantly translates directly to as ad revenue, which then translates to stock value and company valuation. It all boils down to money. If they make people so reliant on technology that they cannot think for themselves or carry out basic life functions without technology, then they’ve done their job.

While there are so many memes about millennials, etc., they are the last generation to be able to read paper maps, drive stick shift cars, use computers, cook, clean, navigate, have grit in place of instant gratification, think for themselves (at least the non-indoctrinated ones), do things without AI, amongst other things.

The newer generations are so heavily reliant on technology and AI that they cannot do a single thing without it. Even social interactions between them are very surface-level or nonexistent. We’re doomed.

Canada okay? Try Windscribe. No user information collected, generates an account hashed value akin to Mullvad’s account number. You can pay by crypto, but their payment gateway collects an email address only to notify you of payment status from crypto. They’ve also got an ample number of servers. There is also no device limit like Mullvad has. Their Android app is pretty good too. I’ve been trying them recently after this Mullvad debacle and the connection and privacy seems pretty good.