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the point the author is making is that if you make that exception it may well become trivial for an underage user to pretend to be those spiders therefore bypas

the point the author is making is that if you make that exception it may well become trivial for an underage user to pretend to be those spiders therefore bypassing the age protection. However if a user is smart enough to bypass those checks it's likely that the content they are blocking will not do them any harm (though equally i'm not sure i've seen research that suggests that exposure to adult content online is harmful specifically to those under 18) I have however seen plenty of research that suggests that social media is harmful to just about everyone, and we're not trying to block that

kazinator 5y ago
> it may well become trivial for an underage user to pretend to be those spiders therefore bypassing the age protection. I don't think so; forging a reverse DNS so your IP address looks like you're a spider connecting from google.com is not trivial. The other aspects of the connection can be easily faked, of course, but that means nothing if the site is validating on IP block or domain. (There will likely be trivial ways to defeat the age checks, just not by way of the route of successfully pretending to be the Google spider.)