Post #1528779

2026-04-16 10:26 UTC

For sure, but in all those access tiers, they would presumably need to verify MY age as well to be sure of which tier I fit into, right? The only reason I can see that I wouldn't need to use this app is if I'm on a site that isn't age gated, I think. Edit: sorry, I didn't even respond to your second point. I think you're exactly right about the issue being with them being harmful to begin with. Fixing those issues should absolutely be the first priority. And I wanna be clear, the idea of a zero proof system is the best I've heard of so far in all of these concepts. At least with that there aren't some insane security issues being overlooked. I'm just wary of the surveillance state future everyone seems to be pushing for.

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@skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-16 10:59

Assuming the technical implementation is sound (I'm techy but that's still way over my head), there is something missing from the explanations I've been seeing so far. The state is of course the one who should be proving my identity, and the website has (usually) no business knowing who I am or holding a copy of my documents. The state however has no business knowing what I'm browsing, and a pinky promise is not enough. I can't understand whether this is something that the proposed system offers, or whether it's a property of zero-proof systems in general. Obviously something like this must necessarily be Free and Open Source if any trust at all must be put into it.

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