Apple iOS now requires age verification to access websites it deems 18+. Not even using another browser like Firefox works, it's blocked at the OS level.
I was putting off switching to Graphene or e/os until prices improve, but looks like my hand is forced.
Edit: VPN doesn't even work because Apple knows your GPS location. I haven't tried location spoofing yet because that's a bit more annoying to setup.
Why you need to be over 18 for for that site? It's comedy and not pornography.
Did they also ban news websites or is that brainwashing allowed?
Try searching on startpage.com and from there click on visit in anonymous view ..
I was trying to research a meme I saw recently here on Lemmy. Someone posted a photo of ramen called "soup for sluts". I wanted to see if it was real, or A.I. generated like some commenters suggested.
Yeah the search result is just a comedy website making fun of the ramen. That's why I'm especially offended. My guess is that Apple simply detected the keywords in the title as pornography, rather than doing anything intelligent. I'd estimate that any website with the title containing naughty words would be blocked!
Good idea with the startpage thing, though. It actually works! It's a bit glitchy though; I was able to read for 10 seconds at a time before the website crashes. Better than nothing, though. Thanks!
By including naughty words in the titles of a bunch of important web pages, we could show them the stupidity of that move.