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Comment by ajsnigrutin | original | California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
[−]ajsnigrutin · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:41 UTC · link
That's much harder to implement. If you ban advertising eg. online casinos to underge users, the service would have to send two different ads (one 18+ and one for younger people too), and the browser would have to decide which one to play. Same for eg searching on google, browsers would have to filter out every <div> with adult content, meaning half the page would be empty, but with a browser "underage" flag, google could just turn on safe search and not allow turning it off.
[−]1e1a · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:37 UTC · link
Plus, as soon as the user clicks on one of these optionally filtered elements, the service will know how exactly what browser is filtering.