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Wait... So if Linux doesn't have the api (sorry, the "signal" 🙄) how will sites that require it respond? What does it mean to be "exempt" - every user is considered to be an adult?
You're exempt from the service too probably.
Are you implying "exempt from the service" means Linux gets blocked?
Ehhh, honestly I'm thinking it's more likely they'll block you. That's how these things tend to go in this age.
Kind of like how more and more of the Internet just outright blocks vpns.
This is my growing experience of using GrapheneOS.
Mostly everything works just fine. But certain apps don't, because they've made a choice to use Play store integrity. And there are more and more of them, including the UK government ID app. So I can't use my phone to verify my identity because I use a version of Android that's more secure than Google's.
And yeah, I can see it going this way with Linux. If you can't be verified using macOS, Windows, or ChromeOS (or whatever the new thing is) tools, then you become a second class digital citizen.
And that's why we need to build better and better tools for everyone.
It's very easy, a lot of these huge platforms are just corporate adware and military/intelligence propaganda machines, creating something real with real people will blow it out of the water.
And why we need people who can hammer it home to our political classes that it's vitally important not to be stuck in an Apple/Google/Microsoft trap.
I mean that's what "exempt" means in this context.
Oh I understand what you meant now.