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		subscribed 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermine... This also means the only operating systems allowing access to the internet will be these with the immense surveillance and ad-infested.

coffeefirst 19 days ago [–]

Not at all. You require websites to respect the signal of its set just like GPC. If there’s no signal it fails open. And if a kid installs Linux and sets the signal themselves, well, who cares, they can also sneak into R rated movies. It’s enough friction to kill the ubiquity.

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