Remember all the ruckus with various US states introducing operating-system level age verification laws? Colorado and California thankfully exempt open source.
And as far as I know it was written pretty much by Meta. And then we have lobbying and some law text written by a private company ends up being pushed in several states. (With minor changes.)
I mean we happen to share some goals. I think it’s great they just trust what somebody enters. It’s probably there because they want more users and less barriers in the way. Bit it happens to help with privacy as well. And people don’t need to scan some government ID. Same with Linux I think. They probably had someone do the numbers to find the sweet spot between enshittification and users leaving. But I won’t complain if it means more Linux market share.
And as far as I know it was written pretty much by Meta. And then we have lobbying and some law text written by a private company ends up being pushed in several states. (With minor changes.)
I mean we happen to share some goals. I think it’s great they just trust what somebody enters. It’s probably there because they want more users and less barriers in the way. Bit it happens to help with privacy as well. And people don’t need to scan some government ID. Same with Linux I think. They probably had someone do the numbers to find the sweet spot between enshittification and users leaving. But I won’t complain if it means more Linux market share.