Apple starts blocking users in Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and the UK from downloading 18+ rated apps without age assurance, and rolls out new developer tools
Apple is rolling out new age assurance tools for developers in regions including Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and parts of the US …
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@diami
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The issue is most of the reasons they're using to gate this tech for kids has shown worse effects on adults. Decommodifying parts of the internet would accomplish a lot more than age gating ever will. [embedded post]
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@hern
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this has always been the obvious way to do it. the next thing imo is for these governments to assure the app _developers_ that they don't ned to do their own age assurance. If Apple's checking IDs at the door, then you should be able to build an app for adults without needing t…
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