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Comment by catlikesshrimp | original | California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
[−]catlikesshrimp · 2026-08-30 Sun 06:19 UTC · link
Can someone the exemption for browser extensions and other contained software? My best guess is that the OS > Browser are reporting the age already, and the browser extensions will also use that "signal". Is this close enough?

" third carve-out excludes storefronts distributing extensions or add-ons that run exclusively inside a host application, which takes browser extension stores out of scope."

[−]odo1242 · 2026-08-30 Sun 12:55 UTC · link
It’s saying that, for example, Chrome on Linux isn’t required to ask for the user’s age in order to filter extensions