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Who said the device based service has to be closed source?
It doesn't have to be, but the businesses making it claim it needs to be.
Experience, most proposal for "age and identity verification" being badly implemented mostly closed-source solutions that only works on devices they deem trusty, meaning (seemingly) non-rooted phones with specific OSes.