California, Brazil, UK issue...my 2 cents

I would just add a boolean question to FreeBSD and Linux installations (pre-existing or new) and add a system proxy (like a built-in firewall) to modify all requests with an age-related boolean (true = >17, false = < 18). Then, we can actually do ad-blocking at the system level with no need to use Charles, Fiddler, Squid, mitmdproxy, Privoxy et cetera

smoke a cigar and smurk at the caesar-addicts pushing this garbage. Once again, age = demographics.

I also have to add a note: I have a child and i've battled this concept myself. How can i block sites and apps because parental controls really fail in a ton of ways. I actually said to my Wife "why does Microsoft not have better control for parents?" but again, i am against government intervention and at the OS level to boot (no pun intended). Funny how so any governments act like they care about safety and privacy but permit so many requests to domains other than the one you are visiting and also permit intrusive cookie consent modals in addition to ads and tracking images = It is alot like me following you everywhere you go and trying to sell you products by getting in your face as you try to walk. Eventually, you would call the police or try to attack me in anger. So, then, and only then you understand the irony?
 
I had this discussion with a few people who are strong open source and mostly far left wing politicaly people. The general attitude is let it break and then ignore it. I disagree and think that a minimum bar solution should be offered which will be accepted and then ignored.

I stand by my other proposal in this thread but think a few alterations are in order. I still like the pam module which can be hooked into whatever auth system so it works for single machines to university networks and any of its ldap like friends. Then in the BSDs, have it set a sysctl in a user.something.$UID.age.whatever which can be set via the pam module and then that is queried by web browsers to send the appropriate flags much like web browsers can request languages. My original idea was an ENV var. The key here is the default of no data is the user is above 21.

There are legal and technical issues that can not be resolved and everyone here knows that. My proposal is create a framework, hand that off to the politicians with advice for implementation and hope for the best. Ignoring them means their people will come up with a far worse solution. They would prefer we hand them an answer on a silver platter.
 
I had this discussion with a few people who are strong open source and mostly far left wing politicaly people. The general attitude is let it break and then ignore it. I disagree and think that a minimum bar solution should be offered which will be accepted and then ignored.

I stand by my other proposal in this thread but think a few alterations are in order. I still like the pam module which can be hooked into whatever auth system so it works for single machines to university networks and any of its ldap like friends. Then in the BSDs, have it set a sysctl in a user.something.$UID.age.whatever which can be set via the pam module and then that is queried by web browsers to send the appropriate flags much like web browsers can request languages. My original idea was an ENV var. The key here is the default of no data is the user is above 21.

There are legal and technical issues that can not be resolved and everyone here knows that. My proposal is create a framework, hand that off to the politicians with advice for implementation and hope for the best. Ignoring them means their people will come up with a far worse solution. They would prefer we hand them an answer on a silver platter.

Let them fry on their own fat. Just refuse to have anything to do with it. This comes not just from politicians but also evil capitalist corporations, so all the more reasons for left & right libertarians to unite in a common cause.
 
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