So this is a more in depth explanation of what it actually does. In the end it only searches a specific number of extensions from chrome extension store, encrypts it and sends it off to 3rd party.
https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/
But i also don’t use chrome based browser and don’t visit LinkedIn. Il live
laughs in linux
Thank you kind stranger
I didn’t believe it, i mean they were pricey as hell but this is taking the biscuit now 😞
I am not convinced we can find a cross that is able to bear his weight
Sigh 😔
Considering how bad Afghanistan was with half population and no stranglehold on critical shortcut… yeah not a chance. USA population is what 300mil+? Iran is about 90+.
They probably don’t want to be next to leak age verification details. Just removing responsibility.
Right so mixed content steam already has parental controls specifically with an allow list
GOG provides individual installers, so you can control its access with guid
Content players pretty much all have child accounts
Even locally hosted ones, like Plex already have parental controls built-in (mostly via allow lists)
What other kinds of mixed content applications are there that already do not have some kind of parental controls implemented which are likely to actually make use of this?
I am honestly struggling to find specific examples of the types of applications which have mixed content, don’t have parental controls or at least allow lists built in and are likely to actually implement this change. Again you are relying on developers to actually make use of this field, and outside of corporate applications (which imo are already likely to have some kind of content controls), I am struggling here to see why an indie developer would bother?
Slowly? I think our definitions of slowly may differ
You do realise you can easily restrict who can run what applications (or terminal commands) by using guid? So you can easily restrict a child account being able to execute applications or games already? And you know what, this method does not rely on application developer implementing any kind of age gatekeeping using DOB field… Its generic to all distributions even ones that don’t use systemd. This is why this change is dumb and not needed.
You can even use it to restrict access to terminal commands such as curl so children cannot download something they shouldn’t…
Clean as you go… i should follow what I preach… but its hard
What people fail to realise is that these laws affect very few users in the world… So why is it there for the rest of us?
No requirement today, what about tomorrow? What is happening with age verification in UK?
You need to prove you are an adult usually via CC when you want a wank
So kids and adults started to use VPNs
So now the government is considering forcing VPN’s to also perform age verification
What is next? Do you need more examples of how this is idiotic? Do you know the reason why no one is up in arms about the RealName? Because it was not implemented specifically to facilitate age verification where as this change is purely and specifically to be used for this purpose and no other. Go read the actual PR.
In this hypothetical situation, why are you choosing to install software that does this?
Its not a hypothetical situation, it is happening, although right now to mobile phones and tablets if we stick with Russia example. Il let you envision what direction this is going to. But hey its a law. There are linux tablets out there, should maybe they add this pre-installed app?
By the way that law is there since 2025. Its pretty obvious that we should pre-emptively comply?
If you don’t want software that tracks your location, don’t install software that tracks your location. If you don’t want software that requires your real name, then don’t install software that requires your real name.
That is my plan when we know the position of other distributions, I will be moving to one that does not use systemd. My argument with this is that the reasons for this change are clearly to comply with local laws that don’t affect majority of the system users. There is no need in this change to be global. It should not exist.
They DO have a linux native client though, and the whole idea of using systemd according to the PR author IS because application developers can then request this information from user profile
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
The xdg-desktop-portal project is adding an age verification portal
(flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#1922) that needs a data source for the user’s age.
userdb already stores personal metadata (emailAddress, realName, location)
so birthDate is a natural fit.
So when application developer such as Discord (an example) builds on top of these age controls and decides to not allow access to channels which are marked 13+?
What do you expect will happen?
According to the guy doing birth date pr, we should pre-emptively comply, so yeah… how about enforcing bans on promotion of LGBT propaganda that has been law in Russia since 2013? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Russia#National_laws
The law subjects Russian citizens found guilty to fines of up to 5,000 roubles and public officials to fines of up to 50,000 roubles.[citation needed] Organisations or businesses will be fined up to 1 million rubles and be forced to cease operations for up to 90 days. Foreigners may be arrested and detained for up to 15 days then deported, as well as fined up to 100,000 rubles. Russian citizens who have used the Internet or media to promote “non-traditional relations” will be fined up to 100,000 rubles.
Oh I know, lets introduce a field that stores an array of your nationalities, so any app developer can request your nationalities and adequately fine you for spreading illegal content online if you are Russian citizen. After all you can do that using a linux machine, so we gotta identify this now too. And the law also applies to foreigners. This law has been in place far longer than California or BR one. Who gets to pick and mix which laws apply and which don’t? But wait its okay its just an optional array, you don’t have to use it…
Do you now see how insanely dumb this is? I am neither in Russia or USA, why should I have to put up with a censoring mechanism?
Parental controls already exist in linux, they are entirely optional to those who want them, we do not need those controls to be rolled out to every user!
Not to mention
The only thing i don’t like about the pi, is no x86. For a desktop i would much prefer x86 architecture.
So i am more looking for a low powered x86 home server as a secondary one.