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For god's sake can corporations and governments stop trying to ~~control and survey people~~ do the job of parents and society. If parents are not doing their job then you need better awareness and education not to take over.
Pretty sure everyone understand it's not about the age.
Guess that is an epic time for android phones. Sike! Unfortunately, majority will do ID verification.
Stay small. If you get too big, the government will start bossing you around.
Nah, I really think Android is becoming worse. In six months we won't be able to install unoficial apps. It won't be long until this happens too
Nah, US sheeple will still purchase iPhones, cos for them it is sth of a status symbol.
Starmer really needs to fuck off.
What if a butterfly was made out of butter?
These kinds of thoughts could destroy big brother.
Your thoughts are incredible sir!
Time for more users to adopt GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS is great and all but I refuse to willingly give google a single dollar for their hardware.
When GrapheneOS can be installed on any device is when I’ll gladly make that switch, and hopefully one day Apple iPhones can run other operating systems.
Buy a used one then. Google won't see your money then.
Or wait a little longer. https://piunikaweb.com/2025/11/19/grapheneos-to-release-non-pixel-flagship-phone-in-q4-2026-or-in-2027/
In a revealing discussion with David Bombal, the GrapheneOS team confirmed they are actively working with a “top-tier Android OEM” to bring their hardened operating system to non-Google flagship devices.
First time I'm hearing about a non google OEM made phone, that would be amazing!
If only you didn't have to give google money to be able to install it.
Buy used and unlocked. Just sold one at my work, was a pixel 8 pro for 300 USD.
My Apple account is probably old enough to vote…
I wonder if any companies would ever accept that as proof hah.
When we were young adults and couldn't buy our own booze, we made it. Let's do something like that here.
That is what F-Droid would be, on Android. If it survives…
Of course, we have SailfishOS, postmarketOS, and other small ones, too.
Why is there no privacy respecting solution for age verification? Like the government giving you some sort of token that says you’re over 18 and that’s it?
What if I told you that by regulation, the EU age verification system has to be anonymous and that it’s only the AUKUS countries that are moving forward in a way where anonymity is “a nice to have”.
Denmark’s system, which is a front-runner implementation in the EU, is going to be fully ZKP.
And yes it’s basically built with tokens.
You identify with a government system in an app. The services issues you signed tokens that are anonymous. You hand these anonymous tokens over to the sites that demand proof of age.
How are you supposed to abuse the data of people that you can't even identify...?
Because its not about age verification, its about tracking and controlling you and making a privacy respecting solution isn't compatible with that.
