This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I will switch to Android
And you think that Google won't implement user tracking? It's literally their reason for existing.
While it’s not (nearly) as convenient, you still have the option to do no-Google Android. At least for now…
Google is working very hard on killing this option. I hope they'll fail.
I will switch to Android
I'll believe it when I actually see it
Why don’t governments force parental responsibilities instead? We wouldn’t need all our data sitting there waiting for the next data breach.
Because they don't actually care abt kids or the Epstein class would all be in jail and they wouldn't be facilitating the bombing of schools.
Because the data is what they want, of course.
A bit of a dishonest question, but wouldn't that argument lead to minors being able to buy alcohol "for their parents"? We are now shifting the responsibility to the stores, not the parents.
I have my reasons to think it's not a fair comparison, but I'll like to hear other's.
So you’d rather have everyone’s data subject to being exposed and your behaviour tracked, as opposed to parents looking after and paying some attention to their kids? Wow.
Giving an iPad at your kids is not good for anyone. It’s easy though.
No, but it you missed so much what I said the first time I don't think spelling it again will help.
We've seen parents fail over and over again. Some parents definitely need a helping hand.
Imagine being so horrible at your job as a “journalist” or an editor or a publication that you would allow an article like this to be written under your name or publication without ever mentioning the fact that age verification is being pushed by governments, not phone and computer companies (they are trying to fight its implementation), and that it is equally coming to ALL platforms (yes, even Linux) – as required by law. If you want to fight this ridiculous age verification shit, petition (and vote out) your government. I would also argue that this author and publication should be permanently blacklisted for purposely publishing this obviously biased and misleading misinformation.
'Even Linux' you say? Absolutely wrong. Linux is the kernel, and this is what is allowing some Linux distros to flip the finger at this bullshit laws. As for android, yeah, 'tech-giant' controlled android OSs will have to comply, but alternatives like GrapheneOS won't, and most likely will not follow this rule. We have options, people that don't want to use them are welcome to keep doing as they're told. While I get that the options are 'comply or leave this market' for OS developers, whether small groups of nerds or trillion dollars behemoths, its still a choice, Apple made theirs.
Linux distros without age verification will be prohibited from distributing to regions where this law is enacted. Of course, circumventing the law is also possible, but that leaves either the project – or you – open to prosecution. As I said, your fight is with the politicians pushing through this ignorant law, not with the people, companies, or projects that are forced to comply.
Yeah but then you'll have a green bubble
It's amazing how apple managed to get Americans took care about that. Meanwhile no one else cares. No one uses iMessage in Europe or Asia.
Won't be any different. It's just a matter of time before Android goes the same
GrapheneOS is Android and declines to introduce that
Not sure when you'll be labelled a terrorist by using a privacy respecting OS though...
By the way our corporate dictatorships are speed-running totalitarianism, I'd say before the decade is done. I will choose to be an antifa terrorist before I accept fascism.
This is actually the least invasive form of age verification for Apple users. Apple already has a credit card on file for something like 90+% of the user base.
The alternative the political whore class are promoting is apps individually verifying with a multitude of ~~data brokers~~ "ID providers".
This is the illusion of choice under the surveillance capitalism of corporate dictatorships. Rather than regulate capitalists, the gov colludes with them to exploit and enslave consumers.
bullshit. no they won't. stock android also gonna get age verification, and is considered bad by apple users, plus its a different ecosystem. stop sharing shit articles like this.
I call bullshit. Apple fans happily take anything Apple pushes down their throats. Even a $999 monitor stand or a $40 microfiber cloth.
GrapheneOS baby
Kicked my 15pro
Android users be like:
With closed source tech getting worse, the masses will move away from it towards good willed opensource tech. Its inevitable.
Hopping from one proprietary platform to the next is like shopping arround for a kinder slaver who doesn't beat you as much. We can do so much better.
Promote the platforms that respect your rights and freedoms.
Apple and Google are financially wired to squueze you for all you're worth. You are the product. You are the sheep that needs fleeced.
We need tech platforms and solutions that respect us and that are not incentivized to squueze max profit. We all know where the road to maxxing profits leads.
I've been windows-free for more than 5 years, and as soon as I can get a reasonable Motorola Graphene phone, I am out.
I have been deGoogled as much as I reasonably can, and if possible I want to stop rewarding scum companies altogether. I am ever looking for better options.
except that they don't even know about the existence of the open tech, and that they are too complicaaaateeeed
Folks, this is coming from your government. The phone makers want nothing to do with it and are actively fighting it in court as best they can. Switching between phone makers will not help, and is not the right place to put your energy. Address your concerns to your governments.
