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I’m going through deciding what I can do without… but now you have to hand over ID to use fucking email?
Operating systems are on the list. You're gonna have to go fully offline.
I guess I will be replacing our kids linux desktops with an estasi kommissar approved OS with inbuilt spyware and advertising controlled by her American ex-employer. Who were we trying to protect?
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Edit: For real tho? Do I need to learn how to use Linux or Tails?
No idea. But you should learn how to use Linux anyway, it's great.
This is a house entirely full of adults. I should be able to say - as account holder so a verified adult already - "there are no children accessing this shit" and then my ISP tells everyone to fuck off their age verification
Well ideally you stop this bullshit and actually rely on parents parenting but we'll never do that shit
Agreed, since parental controls already exist. Kids are just a partial smokescreen I think.
Government wants to grandstand about preventing a very visible issue with kids online, but it’s a pretty sweet deal for gaining more surveillance powers. Social media platforms and search engine companies want to slurp up even more sensitive data.
This bullshit makes me so angry. I can dispense with everything else but I can’t do without an email address.
Something also mentioned storage so I’m going to have to find time and disk space to download decades of photos from Dropbox and Flickr.
I haven't seen email mentioned in the legislation. I suppose you could interpret Gmail/Hotmail etc as web sites you make accounts on in order to interact with something public. But that's a stretch and it wouldn't cover all email.
Email would suffer the same issue as Lemmy. Even if you have a perfect way of verifying users that is accurate, you couldn't stop a kid setting up a mail service on their homelab.
I’m trying to work out since it affects search engine signins would it affect Gmail.
Also
I really hope you’re right because fuck that.
As for messaging (assuming that’s texts) the phone company should already have my age.