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  • a handful of states that require porn sites

    A handful of states can require that, sure, but requiring is not enough. All the browsers and all the porn sites need to follow that and this is not going to happen

    So, again, I don’t know why you’re thinking these solutions are the bad ones

    If the goal is to make sure there’s age verification for users of some porn sites with some web browsers - yea, you can totally achieve that. A workaround is a) switch the website or b) switch the browser. That’s security theater though. Wastes time and money, fails to achieve the goal. If the goal is to make sure age is tested for users of all the porn sites for users of all browsers - this goal cannot be achieved without massive effort.

    they’re just trying to roll it out nationwide now.

    They have internet with porn in it in other nations :)


  • The option of “I don’t want to do it” may not be on the table anymore.

    For this to be on the table you need to convince all the browser manufacturers to implement it and close the sources so it cannot be undone by the users or forked. And remove all the earlier copies and sources Next you need to ban tools like curl or wget because they can pretend to be browsers. If you want something that can’t be removed in reasonable time realistically you have to demand full web drm a-la Google but this means a bunch of older computers needs to be thrown away just because they can’t use newer browsers and/or newer OS.

    Now that we figured out what needs to be done on the client site - let’s talk about server side. You need to convince every porn site out there to perform this check. A few more interesting things to think about - how many porn sites are out there? What to do with those that won’t follow your proposal?

    In short - from technical point of view if you really want to achieve “enforced age verification” - internet must become a very different, much more closed system.