Apple iOS now requires age verification to access websites it deems 18+. Not even using another browser like Firefox works, it's blocked at the OS level.
I was putting off switching to Graphene or e/os until prices improve, but looks like my hand is forced.
Edit: VPN doesn't even work because Apple knows your GPS location. I haven't tried location spoofing yet because that's a bit more annoying to setup.
It's to combat bots and AI scrapers. It's expensive tracking every bot and scraper out there. They created a problem. Now they want us to fix it for them so their money printer doesn't slow down.