There is no such thing as anonymous age verification.

Any so called privacy law that enriches and ensures that age verification data brokers make bank is fundamentally and irrevocably broken.

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To all the brain dead takes like this: no, forcing through regulation users to provide a government digital id when they want to access adult entertainment is not a good idea even if it is done to protect the children.

Second day in a row this spam fud has been posted.

Yeah I mean you’re not exactly shedding some deep insight here, it’s very obviously that. While there’s merit to banning WhatsApp, it’s just foolish to ban signal. It’s the best in class for a reason, and it’s open source. France should devote resources to auditing and supporting signal if they really want to throw money to developing secure software.

Nope it’s the e privacy directive, a common mistake is to blame the GDPR for that though.

Literally this. This is the answer.

Use an adblocker

I can definitely recommend Sue Burke’s “Dual Memory” for a near future, if-not-all-powerful-AI, an AI-becomes-sentient-and-what-is-our-relationship-to-machine-intelligence story! Just powered through it over the weekend. It does a great job of personifying and embodying a recently self aware ai sentience as it works with a protagonist to save their climate-catastrophe-future city from disaster.

Pure psychopaths and masochists.

Reading TOS and Privacy Policies are a useless endeavor. They aren’t written to empower consumers or inform them abou their meaningful choices, they’re written to disclaim the maximum amount of liability. That said, I agree with everything else you said. Data brokers, surveillance advertising, and the lack of any meaningful regulations are what got us into this mess - but all those wrongs can be righted. California just passed a law to let you delete your information from every registered data broker, forever. When given the choice consumers universally opt out of surveillance advertising. And though they’re aligning on opt out frameworks, more and more states are paying comprehensive consumer privacy laws. There’s some reason to be optimistic - but as someone in those trenches… not THAT optimistic.

You think you’re a pragmatist, but you’re just an ignorant fool.

My dude the Crypto wars get wheeled out again every few years and has for decades at this point. It’s so tiring.

Nice use of the passive voice there. “If your house catches on fire”… and if the “firemen” in your analogy are lighting the fire, doesn’t your analogy break down a bit?

Your position is that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are not being told to leave their homes or risk being bombed to kingdom come?

Also how much land did Palestinians hold in 1968 vs today? Just wondering.

Idk the forcible expulsion of millions of people from their ancestral home seems to fit the definition.

PopOS or Endeavor

The law applies to any data broker that buys and sells the information of Californians not just the ones based in the state

Tf? If you need ungoogled chromium just use ungoogled chromium.