Nah that’s silly, because Google has been doing all that already for the past quarter century. This “age verification” shit isn’t going to move the needle on the Google-created dystopia we already have.

The time to worry about not having a digital cage was quite awhile ago. Instead tech people pushed Chrome and Android and Gmail and ads onto us.

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mcdow 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Chrome, Android, and Gmail are optional to use.

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vrganj 5 hours ago | parent [-]

So is social media.

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afpx 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's framed as being only for social media. But, really, it's about network access. Without network access, it's difficult to thrive in the modern world.

Are you not alarmed at the possibility that a person's network access could be cut arbitrarily and at-will?

	▲	vrganj 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm mostly alarmed by kids parroting Andrew Tate and a whole generation being raised propagandised by Tiktok brainwashing.

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Barbing 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is Google tracking which teenagers make which posts on 4chan?

Curious about via Google Chrome versus not