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Apple iOS Now Age Restricts Websites in Australia (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Zarobi@aussie.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] pirat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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!

By including naughty words in the titles of a bunch of important web pages, we could show them the stupidity of that move.

[–] incompetent@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

The problem with that is most of the important web pages are owned by the government or oligarchs (is there a difference anymore?) and we all know they're all for this push for de-anonymization.