A blogpost from Mullvad about age verification
that’s the whole point. they want people to be deanonymised. It’s good for business if the big tech companies can identify you, without a doubt of who you are. This is their entire purpose.
Don’t forget chilling free speech and the sister program to put back doors in, or otherwise destroy, private communication, polly faves.
We are well on our way towards a dystopia and by allowing people that are currently our “representatives” in every country in the government we have snowballed that descent, these greedy corrupt politicians will never stop.
people that are currently our “representatives” in every country
TBH I think like 99% of those reps just have no clue how tech works. Or what the impacts woulkd be of the laws they want to pass.
Of those 99%, many are actively hostile to privacy. But some are not hostile, just clueless. Which amounts to the same result in the end. Except maybe we have a chance to sway them.
Then they should step down and let people that know wtf is going on take charge, just because these old assholes can’t let go of their “power” doesn’t mean they have to right see every moment of our lives and also do you think they will allow themselves to be monitored? yeah most likely not, “sensitive secrets” and all that bullshit.
I’m actually surprised that I’ve encountered this (when ending up on a UK exit viewing porn).
It’s super annoying to have to spend 15 seconds changing the exit on my VPN app and refreshing to make the age verification modal go away
don’t worry, soon it’ll be everywhere so you won’t have to bother w switching your vpn.
Unlikely.
I would have had resisted posting the common framing in the title and used “Most age verification is identity verification” they themselves mention below. And, of course, what this means for future legality of privacy protection tools.
Yeah because that’s what kills the internet.
Not ads everywhere, invasive data collection, AI slop flooding any and all search results, fascist propaganda at every corner…
No really, the internet was amazing before that!
Seriously though, the internet was already long dead, and if you know how to find the few places that are not too rotten, then you’ll manage to avoid age verification as well. There is a lot of concerns to have for the state of the internet, but this is a small problem compared to things that are already there, and already make the whole web unbearable and unusable. LLMs are a much bigger problem for example.
This is a larger problem than ads and LLMs. It is a new level of invasive data connection and kills anonymity on any site that goes along with it. This is really bad even considering how things have been.
Im sorry but this blogpost is regurgitated by AI. They could at least make the effort of writing themselves.
What makes it seem that way? Doesn’t read like AI to me, not a lot of vague fluff, consists of salient points and claims backed by links to relevant sources.
The long dashes, the “Its not X; Its Y” type of ending, it is definitely rewritten by AI from a human text.
