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Re:The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines every... by bigfishrunning on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:09AM (#47136124)
Or, Conversely, these systems won't be able to verify age and will just be shut out of adult content. Which is fine, just keep a windows machine around for porn and do your actual work on a real computer
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Re:The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines every... by MSFT_Edging on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @02:37PM (#47141687)
> Which is fine

But it isn't fine. How long before that's no longer an option?

A few years ago it was "Apple won't let me side load apps, which is fine, I'll run android" now that's coming back and getting locked down even more.

How long before normal computers will all have signed bootloaders with only the OEM's OS of choice allowed to boot, 4 chains deep of verifying signatures on hardware security chips?

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Re:The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines every... by tsimionescu on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:11AM (#47147946)
I can guarantee you that if this becomes ubiquitous and normalized for porn and social media, any code distribution site will be next.
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