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trynumber9 ◴[12 Jul 25 22:17 UTC] No.44545667[source]▶

I'm genuinely curious. The parent buys the phone/laptop. And when little Timmy logs in to his phone the account should be in a family/group as a child account.

What's with the obsession with actually verifying identity? Just make a web API available to determine if the current user is configured as a child account. Why isn't that enough to gate-keep access to adult content?

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mdavid626 ◴[13 Jul 25 11:20 UTC] No.44549456[source]▶

>>44545667 #

Timmy's friend in school has parents who have no idea about family/child accounts. They just give him a phone and let him do whatever he wants.

Timmy's friend is really popular in school.

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1. trynumber9 ◴[13 Jul 25 15:20 UTC] No.44551041[source]▶

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Identification verification doesn't solve that either. His friend could still hand him his phone after logging in and verifying, right? Unless they're doing facial scans the entire time the user is reading adult content.

It seems more like verification theatre.

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