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I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills (www.reddit.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/linux@programming.dev
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God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).

Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it's been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257

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[–] -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The application of age indication is just going to be another metric that these companies use for fingerprinting

As I said, there's nothing to suggest they would receive such an indicator, as far as I'm aware. The indicator is only required between the app store and the OS.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Facebook has "apps", no?

    Last I checked, it had stuff like FarmVille, FrontierVille, etc.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We weren't talking about apps, we were talking about Facebook like buttons on websites.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Causation:

    1. FaceBook website has apps
    2. FaceBook website is an App store
    3. FaceBook website requires access to Age API
    4. Firefox needs to passthrough Age API to Facebook's domain
    5. All embedded FaceBook buttons now get to see your OS's age
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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That's not an app store.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Does the Court ask you?
    Does the legislature?
    Does Meta come to ask what you call an "App Store"?

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The legislation clearly states what is and is not an app store. I'd recommend you mull it over.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    (3) APP.—The term “app” means a software application or electronic service that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

    (4) APP STORE.—The term “app store” means a publicly available website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes and facilitates the download of an app from a third-party developer by a user of a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

    100% sure they all come in the category of an "App Store" when convenient for the lobbyist.

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