Under the UK Online Safety Act pretty much every website going forward is required to figure out the age of every user - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk

Under the UK Online Safety Act pretty much every website going forward is required to figure out the age of every user - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/childrens-information/childrens-code-guidance-and-resources/introduction-to-the-childrens-code/ https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re... This is almost certainly a starting part of implementing that, designed to reduce the amount of users they have to ask for harder age checks for.