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I made an extension that bypasses online age verification (furries.club)

submitted 2 months ago by helloyanis@furries.club to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I made an extension that bypasses online age verification

To show my stance towards online age verification, I made a small (literally, less than 10 kilobytes) add-on that will completely skip ageverif.net's verification prompt. (Only that site (for now?))

With more and more data breaches going on it's important to protect yourself by not sharing unnecessary data, and to show how broken some age verification platforms are!

It's #opensource too! https://github.com/helloyanis/agechecker.net-bypass (more info on why I do it is in the readme)

@privacy

#ageverification #firefox #hacking #web #cybersecurity

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[–] TheDarkQuark@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@TheDarkQuark if they change it, then all of the websites using it will also have to change their code. But I don't think they will change it unless the extension goes crazy viral, they won't bother imo

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Doesn't matter, even if they do then you and others, well I guess "we" now, can come up with another solution. AdBlocks are still there ... because they work. It costs very little to fix (add or modifying a regex by 1 person that suddenly reaches thousands if not millions of users) whereas they have to find a new solution that is indeed compatible. It's not a race they can win.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 points 2 months ago

It might get there eventually but for now we can probably continue to coast on various combinations of general ineptitude, cheapness, laziness, and ignorance on part of people implementing these systems.