Well, in the end there may only be one thing left we can collectively do, but which we surely won't collectively do, because too many of us are way too comfortable to accept any discomforts: We can avoid using services implementing shit, so that any business that singles out desktop users or disadvantages them, doesn't have much of a customer base. Voting with out feet. I have very little hope, that the common user w…
Depressingly this feels like a long lost battle. I suspect internet freedoms will continue to be eroded and by the time most people care enough it’ll be too late. My optimistic brain is hopeful for federated services to become the norm and stand up to this kind of crap.
EU age verification app not planning desktop support
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Re: EU age verification app not planning desktop support
#142A lot of people outraged by this but ultimately this is good news - the more flagrant & public the technical incompetence of the people putting together these idiotic systems, the easier mass push back will be to foment.
The discussion has been shifted from "whether age verification should be a thing" to "how to implement a more convenient age verification system."
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you can't run your bank's app I can log in to my bank account using my desktop PC > government eID apps I can sign into government websites using my desktop PC and its smart card reader and my government-issued eID smartcard. No smartphone needed.
Not in EU. Many banks mandate you either have an iPhone or Google approved Android as 2FA. Those fucking idiots have killed their own competition options.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, looking around I see more people using smartphones for anything and even not having a PC…
I've seen this as well. It's getting increasingly normal, but I cannot imagine doing the same myself. There's a much bigger likelihood of me going back to a feature-phone, compared to me starting to use my phone for anything but the absolute basics.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, looking around I see more people using smartphones for anything and even not having a PC…
But as long as there are still people using desktop computers, removing access from them is an overreach and makes these ideas totally undemocratic. I am frankly baffled that an organization having the principles and know-how of the EU can even think of gating access to information with something so slipshod. The only eventuality where this is acceptable is when desktop computers won't even be gated, and then if anyo…
Again - this is only just one of the possible implementations of https://ageverification.dev/Technical%20Specification/archit...
It's possible to have others but as POC they are focusing on covering the biggest chunk of the population…
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't you people have phones? Edit: Sorry that reference was a deep cut, I was quoting the devs of that awful Diablo mobile game way back.
A phone isn't enough, you need an Apple or Google account as well. So if your Google account gets banned, you might as well just jump of a bridge because it's over for you.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, looking around I see more people using smartphones for anything and even not having a PC…
Smartphones are a lot more portable than desktop PCs or even laptops. Unless you enter everyone's home to take an inventory of their devices, it stands to reason that you're going to see more smartphones than anything else by just looking around.
Re: EU age verification app not planning desktop support
#148I said what I said, do not @ me.
Re: EU age verification app not planning desktop support
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
But as long as there are still people using desktop computers, removing access from them is an overreach and makes these ideas totally undemocratic. I am frankly baffled that an organization having the principles and know-how of the EU can even think of gating access to information with something so slipshod. The only eventuality where this is acceptable is when desktop computers won't even be gated, and then if anyo…
> I am frankly baffled that an organization having the principles and know-how of the EU can even think of gating access to information with something so slipshod. That doesn't surprise me at all. Principles in a government body don't exist. They are all crooks.