Comment by skybrian
Glancing at the front page, it looks like this product also has enforced SafeSearch and restricted mode to protect children, so... seems fine? They're doing the same thing themselves, and it's probably better since it's a local solution.
If you're running a product like this, it should be officially allowed to bypass age verification.
Arguably, the UK's Online Safety Act already allows these products to bypass age verification: see s. 12(6) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/12/6):
> the age verification or age estimation must be of such a kind, and used in such a way, that it is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not a particular user is a child
Unfortunately, it's hard to tell what this passage means, and I suspect it doesn't apply here. (But does that mean there's no law covering age-verification bypassing services? That seems like an unlikely oversight, and the Online Safety Act's badly-drafted enough that I'm not comfortable making a broad assertion here.) Hopefully case law sorts this out a little.