Zedstrian

This is a great way to watch stuff while minimizing Google’s ability to tie watch history to personal identifiers.

He didn’t have any way of knowing at the time what Linux would become.

Dominik sees practical, non-surveillance uses for the field, like tailoring workshop laptops to age-appropriate defaults without restricting access to anything.

No one deserves death threats, but per the quote above, the existence of the setting still encourages distributions to ask for the user’s age at setup, as apps may require the setting to be enabled to know how to handle the user’s data and which experience is best suited for them.

While this may automate the parental control process for parents, many users don’t want their data used by software in ways they don’t consent to, even if it doesn’t leave the device.

Probably because of its compliance with age verification standardization.

Google is far less ethical than F-Droid, and yet the developer doesn’t mind leaving it up on there.