(Not sure if this is worldwide or only in some countries)
Updating to iOS 26.4DB2 will put your phone into a parental-restricted mode with adult websites blocked on all browsers, warning prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app, and all social media apps blocked on the App Store (in Australia)
The settings to disable this mode are locked off until you verify your age either with a credit card, photo ID, or though information Apple already has (like the age of your account).
I’ve been an apple user my entire adult life but this might finally be the thing that forces me off the platform. Do any other long term apple users have some tips about migrating? I’ve heard Ashai Linux is pretty good on mac hardware these days and I’ve been thinking about GrapheneOS for a while.
I love how big corp is already ready. It’s almost as if they somehow knew all along that all the govs with bribable legislators would be making laws they all seemed to arbitrarily adopt at once. Can’t wait for the shill AI slop response to this comment making it seem like a good idea.
Can you try to send an explicit image while offline?
I’ve been an apple user my entire adult life
It’s time to grow up.
You think this isn’t coming to other devices? Google will presumably add this to Android and apps will follow suit by looking to the OS to verify your age so other forks will probably have to add it. Linux on smartphones is dead in the water so what’s the alternative?
Majority will accept it, they dont care and governments and corpos like this
So now California has a governor pretending to be pro-Palestine to do damage control while signing laws that give Zionist corporations more control over your data and hardware
So what’s actually going on in Cali for them to have such a douchebag governor?
If you ever thought Gavin was anti-Trump, I have news for you 😄
Oh he’s anti-Trump alright. But that’s just meaning that he wants to take Trump’s place.
Fuck Trump tho am I rite?
Yes but Trump isn’t the one doing the age verification mandates
I just hope this doesnt impact macos until the end of the year, then I will be able to move to linux on my laptop.
I bet people will just accept it and not even think twice about it.
For sure. Majority of people will happilly take a selfy and send it to whatever company without a second thought.
I see you too were born on January 1st 1970.
To be clear, these are Apple users. Most of them will take just about any abuse Apple is willing to throw their way.
Pretty much yeah
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“Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to download this Linux ISO”
“Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to proceed with installation”
I’m in canada!
oh i’m not in California, I’m in Egypt. I’m waist deep in denial.
Which do y’all think is worse? [Serious]
Eventually: must be in Antarctica to use this distro
Wait, send explicit images? I’m not a child, I get that on these platforms my privacy is pretty well gone, but is it explicitly known (confirmed from the source) that these companies scan your images too?
That feels extra fucked up. Like "hold on a sec bucko let me check this photo you’re trying to send real quick to make sure it’s not titties "
where do you think they got the database for their porn generating llms?
They definitely do. That’s how you can search photos by their content on iOS or android.
but is it explicitly known (confirmed from the source) that these companies scan your images too?
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-automatically-blur-nsfw-content-on-iphone-or-mac/
Yes, doesn’t need to be confirmed in source when Apple makes it a feature
It’s under settings > Apple account (the bubble with your name if you’re signed in) > age range for apps.
The first time you click it you’re asked to go ahead or update your birthday in the account first.
Inside you can pick to always, never or ask first before sharing your age range with some app and it says you can see what apps have asked for your age range.
Can I still pick 1/1/1900 when I update?
Fuuuuck with apple doing this, I wonder how long we have until this BS enters Android and Linux Kernel.
There are many distros. And you can build kernels from source.
Lmao good fucking luck enforcing this on Linux. There’s no central authority to handle age verification, and even if there was, it’d take less than a week for someone to make a patched version of whatever tool they use that just… Autoreports that you’re an adult no matter what.
Well when we have to comply we can make a build flag everyone shut toggle off…
I suggest simply never complying. Anyone who does is a traitor. This is FOSS, they have no control over us.
I suggest simply never complying.
While this is the best. it is not feasible. Not many open source projects can just pay millions on fines and not think about it. Idiots making these laws cant enforce it but they will try in the only way they know. Fine and fine and fine untill a project dies.
Forgive my confusion but could they not choose to lock out web traffic without a verification? Lets say your ISP joins and says that you need x bullshit token from the government to us it, then what?
How would they have to pay any fines if they simply say we are no longer for use in xyz place doing age verification?
Second, how would payment be enforced when there is no organization to fine?
I find it odd to protect children they will stalk the hell out of us but won’t arrest known pedophiles …
I hate the world
Also they’ll deny trans kids puberty blockers which are proven to be safe and reversible, and the alternative creates harm.
And they’ll censor the internet for ‘children’ (a 17 year old is not a child) to prevent them finding community, support or education outside their IRL religious and harmful bubbles.
It was never about actually protecting children
Yeah apparently it’s fine for them to fuck kids but too immoral to risk kids seeing people fucking.
It’s not to protect children though. It’s for political surveillance.
Exactly. Governments around the world, including the U.S., of course, have made it crystal clear through their actions that they don’t give a fuck about protecting children.
Better to just hate the whole Epstein Class. They trash the world for everyone else…
We’ve had a name for them for the last 200 years: the capitalist class, or to be more precise, the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.
the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.
The painful irony being that the bourgeoisie were still below the nobles
If everyone voting for these age requirements don’t also vote to require you to use an ID to unlock the safety on a gun or remove a knife from the knife rack, they aren’t voting on this to protect the children.
Knives and guns need age verification before someone seeing Kate Upton showing her breasts.
Im going side with none of it needs age verification, and all of it needs parental guidance
At least knives have a use outside of killing
In America.
This is insane. They have to view your images to deem of they are explicit…
Basically a year away from a universal internet ID that will track all movements and can be restricted if your government doesn’t like you.
Apple already views your images for child porn.
If you read the article, they don’t.
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They probably do it for people like Donald and all his Epstein friends to save and pre order.
Do they though? As a side note, I read the documentation for the proposed system of scanning and it was actually really well designed for privacy. The problem was if they were forced to expand the scope to include other material such as, for example, proof of protest against a regime.
Has this expanded from iCloud uploads? It’s crazy how using a device now requires users to allow company full access yo everything.
I guess I never believed it was limited to iCloud.
Wanted to view*
To get a sim card in Australia you need to show identification. There is no anonymity.
For a phone sim…of course you do. I mean they would know who pays the bill anyway right? Unless you have a phone company that takes bitcoin or cash only.
Phone companies are required to collect and retain IDing info of customers to activate a phone number in Australia. There’s no way around it unfortunately
This also means they are tracking all the websites you are going to.
They already are. Well depends on who they are I guess but someone is.
This would be pre vpn or anything else you could do to protect your privacy - if it’s at the OS level it’s before the browser and VPN level
That’s not happening now, but it’s the only way the are gonna be able to to check content to make sure “ the children are safe “
That was already happening, as the option to block sending and receiving of such content was able to be turned on in your screen time settings, and you could mandate it for your children by managing your kids accounts on the family organizers device. If someone is under the age of 13 they are required to be on a family share, and if you don’t have “Ask to Buy” enabled, from what I know you won’t get a refund for anything with the excuse my kid bought this without permission.
Overall it all seems logical, but in those scenarios the ages and requirements are mostly all controlled by the parent.
Scary. I had no idea it went beyond the iCloud scans. I avoided the cloud after that celebrity image leak.
Guess we might see a rise in offline or dumb devices. I wonder how this will affect other nations that already have restrictive internet access. If the
USWest becomes more locked down where would free and accessible info go?
After commercial OS have age verification they will remove it from the programs because the age was already verified, right? (Padme asking Anakin)
Nope, the CA/CO legislation requires that all applications utilize the OS-level age verification API!
I don’t give a shit what children see.
They’ll live.
Stop spying on adults.
I mean some shit you find online is pretty grim but when I was a kid I knew the internet was for adults and didn’t expect everything to be catered to me. Now the status quo seems to be “every website must be kid/advertiser friendly and PG13 by default, everything else must be locked behind a verification prompt”. How did we get here?
We let 5 companies control the internet. Instead of being the distributed thing it was dreamed up to be we allowed it to consolidate.
And it’s not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that’s straight-up illegal! Your fuckin’ commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.
It’s just a facade to justify mining more data for power, influence and money.
Simple as that.
