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Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado (itsfoss.com)

submitted 3 days ago by other_cat@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Other open source software gets similar treatment, with Colorado going as far as explicitly excluding code repositories and container platforms.

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[–] No1@aussie.zone 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Waiting for....

403 Unauthorized

We're sorry, your browser has not provided us with age verification, and so we are unable to show you our cat videos.

Reason:
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why are you waiting for this? This is already the reality; example: fansly uses the ID verification service ondato, which only works on chrome browsers and tries to detect "tampered camera feeds", ofc it doesn't work on Linux.

[–] TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Call it Surveillance ID, don't give in to control freaks.