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Look at you defending this. Wow. MAGAt.
The correct word is attestation, not verification. It's incredibly important distinction.
...did you reply to the wrong message? Lol
Nope. They are saying they don’t have a problem with the OS asking because they can just lie. Except later when they amend the law and make it illegal. It’s a slippery slope that ends in identity verification.
The problem everyone has is the verification portion. Thing it to a real person. The rest doesn't really matter. This is no different from you entering your age on a porn site, which has been a requirement in the US for decades.
Your argument is like being mad that you can't smoke anymore because your doctor told you not to. No one is forcing to to actually do it or to tell the truth to your doctor.
Sure there is. When the OS has the ability to supply providers with your AGE this is just additional tracking. They won’t ever stop at age.
If a website needs to know your age……. It can ask you.
You sound like the kind of person who says, “if you don’t have anything to hide you shouldn’t worry about the government invading your privacy”
You’re insane. This is nothing like smoking. wtf? lol. Missing a few card in your deck.
You seem to just keep ignoring the part where you don't have to enter real information. I'm not sure if you're just dumb or a troll. I'm hoping the latter.
And yea, I agree about the website just asking. It changes nothing so why are we bothering with it at all.
If you want a real answer, it is for the situation where the owner of a device would like to respond on a non-privileged user's behalf. A kid being asked 'hey, you have to be 18 to see inside, pinky promise? ;)' by a website is not secure. And there are plenty of sketchy, privacy-invasive third party solutions to lock down devices, but a system-level universal age attestation api would make it a lot easier for parents to control what their child sees, assuming the internet adopts it broadly.
It's not meant to even inconvenience adults who own their own devices. People complaining about this must have trouble opening child seals on their medicine.
First the birthdate, then the ID. Just like the states who block porn.
Are you MAGA or ML. It’s hard to tell the difference.