Originally Posted by cerulean

I've learned the APIs for VerifyMy and Yoti, and I'm looking at learning Agemin next. Possibly Ondato. I've also learned iDenfy, but that's KYC.

VerifyMy has been pretty easy to work with. iDenfy was stellar to work with. These two are the only ones I've worked with that have a legitimate sandbox.

Effectiveness is complicated. Yoti released a whitepaper about their effectiveness which is promising.

Ease of integration depends. Are you doing a SFW tour + NSFW members area? Are you verifying before even seeing the tour?

If you are very risk averse, then no, it's not that easy. You need to protect the ENTIRE directory or domain until age verification is performed successfully. The only software that I know of that is that comprehensive and allows for a SFW tour is the one that I built, LoginBlue. The other implementations I've seen only protect pages, not directories.

Ease of use for users depends on which verification system you use. Some are more lax than others, and that means you take on additional risk the easier it is for users. I am not convinced by OCRing IDs and using AI to guess ages. Some of these providers have put a lot of effort into that though, and they seem to work.

As for whether it's safe for visitors, that also depends. I don't know how safe these 3rd party software platforms are. Everything is vulnerable. Nothing is 100% secure. We really don't know the practices of any provider. That means they had better be doing their due diligence whatever that looks like.

Cost is interesting. If you are only verifying after joining, then there really is no cost, because you can just roll the verification into the member price. If you're verifying everyone before loading the tour, then yeah, that's gonna be expensive.