> Desktop support is not currently within the project's scope.
What I would like to take from this is that, by their own definition, desktop apps are out of scope for Age Verification. So does that mean we will see a return of the 'desktop applications' instead of everything being a web service ?
One can dream perhaps. Until then adults who are willing to 'do what they're told' will be the ones who are inconvenienced by this constantly.
Edit: Also this will completely disable any new phone OS' being developed. Why would anyone bother when you can't verify your wallet to do anything online.
This already the case today, you can't run your bank's app or government eID apps on anything but Google or Apple devices.
I can log in to my bank account using my desktop PC
> government eID apps
I can sign into government websites using my desktop PC and its smart card reader and my government-issued eID smartcard. No smartphone needed.
TOTP codes would be allowed by the regulation, as would biometric approaches or separate physical tokens, but in practice every bank I've used in recent years (quite a few, mostly Spanish but also in Belgium & Switzerland) require that you accept a confirmation prompt or similar in their app.
Regulations are written (at EU level) to allow X, Y and Z; somehow by the time it's implemented at member state level it miraculously only allows only X or Y, and once it gets to actual service providers (who've presumably been advised by their in-house lawyers that 'Y is bad') we end up with a choice of X or nothing.
Then if you ask anyone at EU level what's going on, they point to what the regulation says, and everyone shrugs.