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Jeez, every platform and company is going to that ID and face recognition crap. Should we say goodbye to our little bit of privacy and anonymity on the Internet?
Why’s Apple even doing this? They’re not a social media platform to begin with.
Facebook had lobbied so that the age verification is handled by the device rather than the application. The applications then need to check against this device API and conform accordingly.
This ends up cheaper for Facebook and opens up for future legislation to embed similar shit in the OS for companies to exploit.
Go then. There are other worlds than these... (that's from the Dark Tower books by Stephen King).
Honestly... I have both. I have a 2024 iPhone Pro Max (16) and a 2019 Galaxy S (10). The iPhone is my main device. The Android phone is WiFi only, but if I have WiFi, I'd rather browse Lemmy on that, because iOS has this controversial feature where it will change what you type after you've typed it. So you're constantly proofreading. Android doesn't do that shit, or at least Samsung's fork doesn't do it. There are a few things I like about Android. My Android phone is basically a NookPhone — the phone you get in Animal Crossing. The case, the background, the icons... of course they're just icons for actual apps. I don't have the NookPhone apps. "Pro Camera" just opens the Samsung camera. "Passport" just opens my Animal Crossing item tracker. "Chat" just opens Telegram, which I just use for cross-platform media-rich chat with my wife. You can't do that with iPhone — certainly not the 3x3 app grid the NookPhone has.
And there are a couple things iOS does better. Apple Health doesn't sell your data. A couple years ago, my wife's Galaxy phone told her she'd have to agree to let Samsung sell her health data, or she'd have to delete it and opt out of the app. No one's been able to point us to a health data tracking app that is free, private, and good on Android. Everyone agrees (or refuses to speak up and disagree) that Apple Health is the de facto winner here. So it's worth having an iPhone for that, at the least. Plus, AirPods are at least marginally better than the Android equivalents.
So yeah... at some point, I'm gonna upgrade the Android phone. Might even switch to Android, as in, move my cell service from the iPhone to the Android phone. And still keep the iPhone for health tracking, music, and whatever else I want it for. At least until the Mac can do all that stuff. As of now, it actually can't. Music yes, health no. As I am also a Mac user. I would have no problem going Mac + Android, if my Mac did Apple Health (as opposed to just mirroring the notifications). I tried to make a Shortcut where my Mac could log Health data. It wouldn't even log the data and pass it to the iPhone over iCloud. It straight up said "no" to that. So the iPhone has me for Health data.
But I'm not gonna sit there and pretend Apple gives a shit if I buy an Android phone. That's just stupid. And Google gives less of a shit if you buy an iPhone, because they figure chances are good you'll just put Chrome and other Google apps on it and hand them your data that way. No, I buy what I want because it's the best for me and what I'm doing. IDGAF what the corpos think about it.
Gotta love a Dark Tower reference. Love that series.
How does this age verification shit even works? Do you just tick how old you are and that's that and is then used as parental control setting globally or you need to send your ID to some bullshit data mining company that got hacked 3 times already in last year? I don't understand this whole thing.
On iOS, it uses your linked credit card to verify you're over 18, and then passes a "this user is over 18" flag to any app or website that needs it. It's arguably the least intrusive or insecure way to handle this push from the EU.
