Re:"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit
by input_sh on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:42PM
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I completely agree it's technologically feasible in basically every continental European country (as we all have some form of biometric IDs), but do you want to have to do that every time you open a private tab to look at porn? Do you want to not be able to clear your browser cookies without going through that process all over again for basically every website? Do you want to extend 2FA into 3FA with your national ID acting as the third factor so you can view "sensitive" content?
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Re:"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit
by baby_souffle on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:42PM
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This guy gets it!
Don't get me wrong, I love diving into the technical details just as much as anybody else here. I've learned something new almost every time there's a comment thread on the subject .
But the technical details are a distraction. That this is happening at all is the forest the technical crowd is going to miss for the trees.
Preserving some semblance of privacy on the internet is already hard enough. We do not need systems like this to encroach any farther; risks of personal privacy is so great and could be caused by such a simple innocent and subtle configuration mistake.