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Australians to face age checks from search engines

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139 points stubish | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 23:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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. hilbert42 ◴[02 Jul 25 02:16 UTC] No.44439698[source]▶
Unfortunately, two problems with that approach, Goolge with fingerprinting, cookies, IP addresses etc. will still know who you are. Second, even in the rare event that you are able to make yourself anonymous then the search results you're dished up can be filtered without your knowledge.

That would have the same effect.