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  • Lol, is it just an onclosed function call?!

    I myself haven’t seen any age verification popups yet, due to me always being on a VPN, but I admire you for writing the bypass and making it open source.

    I hope this continues to work, but seeing how dystopian the surveillance is getting, I won’t be surprised if everything is handled in the backend in the near future (client <-> server, client <-> verification provider, server <-> verification provider); sort of like how payments are handled.




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    12 days ago

    I find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that people do not understand this. Like, why would you ever think that you have more money than the amount deposited in your account?! I am guessing it is regional — restricted to places with poor financial hygiene/literacy due to whatever reasons.

    (Despite the em-dash, I am not an AI. Two plus two is four Minus one, that’s three.)




  • Yeah, except this isn’t really about the children. This causes a lot of adults to face restrictions and submit their IDs to surveillance companies like Persona/Palantir. Also, I’m fairly certain you are aware why tying your identity to your browsing activity is a bad idea.

    Also, there are noninvasive ways to implement this, like:

    • Google’s Parental Controls (if you use Android/Google)
    • If you use Apple, then there are similar settings there too
    • If you are on a degoogled device, then use DNS filters, and lock apps to prevent changes

    I do not think everyone (including adults without children) needs to suffer because some parents find it hard to do parent.

    Also, I think this should be more about cracking down on addictive algorithms by social media companies (and holding them accountable) than enforcing a blanket ID collection. None of these laws do anything about that. Even adults are addicted to these platforms, and at best, all this law does is push the addiction until after 16 (in a realistic scenario, children can, and will circumvent this).






  • What are the advantages of self hosting your VPN? Is it to just hide your sessions from your ISP? Also, does it not link the domain (and identity, which I’m assuming you have provided during registration) to your online activity? I thought the whole point of these commercial VPN sellers was that you could “blend in” the traffic, and add enough noise to make any sort of aggregations meaningless.

    If you, however, did register and pay for it anonymously, what service is it? The last time I searched for anonymous VPSs, all of them were outside my budget.