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I understand why people are upset, but isn't the operating system asking the user for age and then that age being used to get through service age gated the better path forward?
I would much rather be able to tell my computer I'm an adult and be able to go to an adult site and have it use that instead of the adult site having to handle the load of age verification. If the age is set per-user, kid profiles and parent profiles can both work to limit content for kids without impacting what the parents see. Hell, even just not having to click through those stupid steam prompts every time I look at a game with an m rating or whatever would be awesome. Especially since my account is over 18yo on its own...
Parental controls already exist. There is no reason to force this invasive bullshit on us. If parents want to restrict/monitor their kids online all the tools they need to do so are already available. The government need not be involved.
Completely agreed, but our opinions don't change reality, and we see the same sort of requests from countries across the world. If something like this is going to happen, it's better to fight for the version you want instead of holding your ground in absolute terms and getting whatever is given to you.
I'd much rather this didn't exist at all, but if they're going to do it anyway, this way is much less invasive and could be a lot better for our privacy.
Even taking this past the parental control aspect, there are plenty of sites that are mandated to age gated, and having that built in and able to dismiss those with a binary of 'of age'/'underage' (confirm to send, obviously) would be great, and would remove the need for some of the existing privacy nightmare ID validation sites. Which would be a overall benefit.