Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
So if you don’t accept this “age verification patch” to your OS (and you know they won’t stop with that), I assume that any attempt to connect to a website that does this check will fail and you won’t be able to connect to it, right?
Well, I am just FINE with that. If I can’t connect to a website, I will treat it like any other broken website and move on to another one. This is how the Internet routes around damage.
Totally valid idea, you just need to hope that there are enough people with you to give that decision weight or you’ll eventually run out of alternatives.
So if you don’t accept this “age verification patch” to your OS (and you know they won’t stop with that), I assume that any attempt to connect to a website that does this check will fail and you won’t be able to connect to it, right?
Well, I am just FINE with that. If I can’t connect to a website, I will treat it like any other broken website and move on to another one. This is how the Internet routes around damage.
Totally valid idea, you just need to hope that there are enough people with you to give that decision weight or you’ll eventually run out of alternatives.