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Australians to face age checks from search engines

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139 points stubish | 5 comments | 01 Jul 25 23:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.673s | source
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ethan_smith ◴[02 Jul 25 01:08 UTC] No.44439379[source]▶
Australia's been down this road before with the failed 2019 age verification bill and the Online Safety Act. The technical implementation challenges are enormous - from VPN circumvention to privacy risks of ID verification systems.
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frollogaston ◴[02 Jul 25 01:09 UTC] No.44439380[source]▶
Well the age assurance is only for logged-in users, so they can just log out.
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1. postingawayonhn ◴[02 Jul 25 01:19 UTC] No.44439436[source]▶
The article doesn't quite spell it out but I assume you won't be able to turn off safe search unless you log in with a verified 18+ account.
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2. frollogaston ◴[02 Jul 25 01:20 UTC] No.44439441[source]▶
It does say "default" which implies you can turn off the filter, but yeah it's not very clear and does make a big difference. For example, YouTube already won't let you view flagged content without signing in.
3. SchemaLoad ◴[02 Jul 25 02:13 UTC] No.44439681[source]▶
This is how Youtube works now. Age restricted videos can't be viewed without logging in.
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4. ptek ◴[02 Jul 25 07:33 UTC] No.44441071[source]▶
Yeah. Can’t watch king of the streets or some video game trailers.
5. _Algernon_ ◴[02 Jul 25 11:06 UTC] No.44442237[source]▶
Ah yes. How terrible would it be if an angsty teen watched the music video to Linkin Park's Numb. Truly the end of the world.