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 am not convinced we can find a cross that is able to bear his weight
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+.
Right so mixed content steam already has parental controls specifically with an allow list
GOG provides individually installed games, 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...
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.
Website doesn't load content on my browser, what is 25th amendment for those of us on the other side of the world