Completely agreed, but our opinions don’t change reality, and we see the same sort of requests from countries across the world. If something like this is going to happen, it’s better to fight for the version you want instead of holding your ground in absolute terms and getting whatever is given to you.

I’d much rather this didn’t exist at all, but if they’re going to do it anyway, this way is much less invasive and could be a lot better for our privacy.

Even taking this past the parental control aspect, there are plenty of sites that are mandated to age gated, and having that built in and able to dismiss those with a binary of ‘of age’/‘underage’ (confirm to send, obviously) would be great, and would remove the need for some of the existing privacy nightmare ID validation sites. Which would be a overall benefit.

I understand why people are upset, but isn’t the operating system asking the user for age and then that age being used to get through service age gated the better path forward?

I would much rather be able to tell my computer I’m an adult and be able to go to an adult site and have it use that instead of the adult site having to handle the load of age verification. If the age is set per-user, kid profiles and parent profiles can both work to limit content for kids without impacting what the parents see. Hell, even just not having to click through those stupid steam prompts every time I look at a game with an m rating or whatever would be awesome. Especially since my account is over 18yo on its own…

Oh man, I fucking miss the IR blaster. I loved having the ability to make custom remotes in my phone, made it so easy to control the crappy projector l was using at the time

Amazon can’t see shit that me and mine read, but that’s cuz I liberated my Kindle books and now read/listen to all of my Kindle/audible books through audiobookshelf.

So glad I made that jump a few years ago