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They have other ways of determining your age without requiring an extremely unpopular ID check.
I don't think there is any way to actually functionally verify age without either an ID check, or a check that ultimately traces back to an ID check from some entity further up the chain. Any successful age check will either dox your identity to the checker, or it can be trivially bypassed.
You're forgetting that they don't NEED to know precise age unless they're doing it for a government mandated age check.
For marketing purposes, which is what they REALLY want your data for, they have a profile of you that's accurate enough even if your age is off by 5 years.
The capitalist part that wants money can build an accurate enough profile with just statistical correlations, but the fascist aspect isn't doing it "for the children" or even just money, it's doing it to completely dismantle all digital privacy, so they can know what everyone is saying and doing online at all times.
Some are accepting having a credit card in Wallet as proof of age, as well as simply having an old enough Apple account
My Apple account is only like a decade old but if YouTube asks me for age verification I'm gonna be writing them a sternly worded letter because my account is old enough to buy alcohol in my country
Before wasting your time with a letter that will go straight into the rubbish, spend a little time seeing if anyone has created a work around, Hopefully Revanced or YTLitePlus can patch the age verification out.