Are we surprised? Of course depends on the browser and they're looking mostly for extensions. Clearly they try hard to map what people use, it's corporate espionage.
Unsurprisingly, they need to find new data to feed the monster...
This keeps escalating... It needs to be stopped.
The commentaries and analysis of those unjust laws continues. The motives behind the people pushing for them are getting clearer and it isn't pretty.
Good initiative to push these unjust laws to their limits. Hopefully it'll show how absurd they are.
It looks more and more likely that the current age verification fever has dark origins...
This is (IMNSHO) a very important open letter. This confirms to me that the whole set of age verification laws we're seeing popup everywhere is severely misguided. Had my suspicions before of course but it's getting clearer with this one. We should stay clear from those laws as a profession, it's important to not comply, it'd be a disservice to our users.
Those dangerous and stupid laws keep popping out unfortunately. This is clearly a slippery slope as shown from the New York bill... We need to push back or the demands will keep growing. Let's hope Free Software communities won't try to preemptively comply, this would be short sighted and self-sabotage.
The stupid idea of age verification keeps spreading with ridiculous laws...
Clearly the author is angry and he has every right to be. By closing platforms and fighting against tinkering, the big tech companies try to kill of the power user and hacker cultures. By letting this happen we all loose as a society.
Could it get more intrusive than this? It's really handing over sensitive data to shady companies...
Time to spy on the spies. Or at least know when they're around.
Yep, it's worse than the usual triangulation everyone thinks about. It's right there in the protocol, or why you'd better not let the GPS on all the time.
Excellent historical perspective on how we ended up with applications filled with annoying interruptions and notifications. It's been done indeed one step at a time and lead to poor UX really.
Those are indeed getting more popular. In a way that's unfortunate, we shouldn't need them so much.
What a surprise... No really who would have expected this could happen? I heard so many times "I have nothing to hide" over the years. When something like this happens you suddenly wish you were a bit more careful with your privacy and the privacy of the people around you.
Clearly the regulators don't really understand the level of intrusiveness they're unleashing with mandating age gates. This is one more layer of surveillance for large parts of the population.
There are just too many of those cameras deployed. The fact that they are badly secured are compounding the negative effects.
Well done everyone. This bullet was dodged... for now! This kind of fever comes back regularly unfortunately.
They are clearly making a statement here. Feeling uneasy about it? Well you should.