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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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[–] Jarmund@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago

Hosted on github, which is owned by Micro$lop. One of the companies who are pushing this age verifying crap (and has ties with Peter Thiel). Is it a good idea to host it there?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 hours ago

Congratulations, you've made the first "must-have" extension to get added to my list in years

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And of course a furry.

Is always a furry that save humanity.

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 7 points 2 hours ago

@ZeroHora This is just a facade so that we eventually take over the world, but shh!!

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Can't this just be a filter in uBlock Origin? What does this do that is special that uBlock Origin can't do?

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 1 points 21 minutes ago

Curious to know this as well. I think it’s possible, but I myself am not capable of writing the filter.

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

@bamboo I dont't think so? I'm not sure how uBO filters works but the popup file is supposed to send an event to the main page to let it know that the verification is done and I don't think uBO filters can do that

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 hour ago

In your experience do sites fail open or closed if the JavaScript from the third party not load? Like will the site wait for the event of the JavaScript library is never requested or loaded?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

@helloyanis@furries.club is it librewolf compatible?

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 3 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

@Maeve @privacy Haven't tried but it should be! Follow the instructions on GitHub!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

@helloyanis@furries.club thanks so much!

G-d bless our furry savior!

@privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 2 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

@Maeve @privacy I didn't think when waking up today that I would be called "Furry savior" ! But I don't mind hehe!

Feel free to tell me if it works on librewolf so I know!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

@helloyanis@furries.club ok I gotta attend to self-care needs, will install on return and get back to you.

@privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 1 points 33 minutes ago

@Maeve @privacy Yeah it doesn't need to be done right away! Take care of your things! :dragn_mlem:

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago

doing the lords work