This would be simple. This would also not address the fundamental issue which is identification of bots vs. humans which are quietly destroying the online advertising industry (which, yeah, good riddance), which is what motivated Meta to lobby for online age verification to begin with. So it would fulfil the official purpose of age verification, but not it’s real purpose
afaik it’s straight up the opposite for the california law. I didn’t read it myself, but from what I read online about it, they require a boolean “adult/minor” and forbid any other data collection related to age
Also the amount of bots (including, to a limited amount, private openclaw bots browsing the web) means that ads served are not really delivered to many humans (and said bots are really getting good at bypassing traditional captchas) & that destroys the value proposition of ads. That’s why Meta lobbies so hard for age verification – they want to be able to distinguish humans from bots, as they used to be able to
Chinese death sentences are usually imprisonment unless a new crime is commited, and generally reserved for corruption & other crimes where people nuke trust in public institutions for personal gain
Holy, and I thought “Vöedtæmhtëhactått” was bad
Not updated but it still works fine
Some stuff that you can use are
AdNauseam, visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them, nuking the usefulness of ad trackers
TrackMeNot, spams queries on search engines, clicks some links here and there, all in the background. Works perfectly with AdNauseam, nuking both ad & search profiling
Then there is this experimental (HARPO: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising) paper on using ML to obfuscate online tracking, it’s a research paper so my understanding is limited to the excerpt 😅 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05792
If the US doesn’t want thousands of deaths on their end, maybe they should have considered not attacking Iran.
Every single one of the radars Iran destroys is priceless, literally; the US could not purchase them if they wanted to thanks to the Chinese rare earths export ban, they can’t be manufactured anymore*
This is a vast downgrade; stripping the GPL is an obvious attempt at nuking open source by bad faith actors. See what’s happening with AOSP, which would be impossible under GPL.
The day GPL stops being used is the day every major tech company will start slowly but surely closing their code down until open source is completely dead
Silicon is used for way more than just chips though, I’d be surprised if it’s more than a percent
Yeah; it just didnt refresh to the latest searches
Lol I thought there was a bug with the top comment having negative votes. Nope it’s just liberals defending the US. Death to amerikkka
windows browsers are all niche when you introduce anything to the mobile market. An android / iOS ladybird browser would crush it
Byd destroys Tesla’s quality, but then again, any brand does, Tesla is rock bottom
It could also be a case of convergent evolution, do they occupy the same niches?
Milky Ray
Well yeah that’s exactly the point of Iran’s attacks
Who benefits from the government buying 50% overvalued shares? And when these companies inevitably fail, why should half the cost be socialized?