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System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks
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this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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There are SOOOOOO many ways to implement age verification checks. And this is one of the worst. What is wrong with people
An "I am an adult" checkbox in your OS that gets propagated out is probably the most privacy centric way to lock down kid accounts right?
They want to require IDs which requires validation, which requires a central authority. Any websites you hit that require the check will request it from the OS which will need to verify with central authority. So they'll know what websites your hitting.
This is different than the legislation being pushed in CA then, sorry it's hard to keep up with the global enshittification of everything