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US state laws push age checks into the operating system (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ultimately, the end game will be certain websites (like your Bank) won’t trust your identity because your using some FOSS verification service and as “they take security seriously” will require you to use MS or Google.

You can see parts of this already. When I'm browsing the web in Linux I get hot with way more captcha checks when accessing websites than when using Windows.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

Even moreso with ad-blocker and PiHole. I swear that every corporate website has me do a captcha of some kind every time I click a link.

On that note, just denying trackers breaks SO many email links, and it feels like it gets worse and worse each year.