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The age verification companies go into more detail on their website but the tl;dr is they want any website with age checks to compare the user's IP address to publicly known lists of VPN IPs, look for hints such as time of day for if the user is UK based, and then force the user to either prove their age or prove that they live outside the UK.
Which is insane of course. It's already a bad law as it stands, but if they get their way then even people living outside of the UK would be forced to provide their location to every social media platform they use if a websites automated system believes them to be connecting via a VPN.
I can't imagine it being very enforcable since Netflix have tried for years to block VPN users with very mixed results & as for geolocation it should be fairly straightforward to spoof that. But these companies get paid by each verification so even if it only shifts another 20% off of VPNs and onto handing over their ID it's still more profit for them.