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Well.. it depends on how do you define "smart" ..but to me, that kind of dedication and resourcefulness is already showing some intelligence, regardless of whether they "get the concepts" (many adults don't fully understand the tools they use either).
In Firefox, you can disable websockets (and most other features or
about:configsettings, but the website you linked uses websockets) through a policy.json setting writable only by root, so it wouldn't be possible for a user without root permissions to change it.Damn 1month ago.
Funnily enough I just read "A third of children (32%) say they have bypassed age checks, including by entering a fake birthdate (13%) or using someone else’s login (9%), while others used more creative methods like drawing on facial hair" from https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/research/online-safety-act-report-2026/ this morning, so they clearly don't have to be the "smart" or dedicated.
Yes, sorry I had a busy month :P
Yeah, that was my point.. that's why I was saying that if a kid is smart enough to to set up a VM like that they are smart enough to find alternative ways that can be bypassed even if you added stronger forms of third party authentication.. the "using someone else’s login" in particular is one of the points I made earlier.
This is why I think the control should be local, and with the parents being the ones responsible. Relying on third parties and in the remote services is not gonna work.