Age Verification for Qubes OS and Whonix (among other Linux distributions)

Qubes OS Forum – 4 Mar 26

How much do we gotta worry about this Linux "age verification" BS?

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I’ve been seeing news about the braindead bootlicker states of America trying to force “age verification” into Linux. I’m still not sure how much I should panic about this. I don’t see any of the communities of the distros I use talking about it,...

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Whonix Forum – 4 Mar 26

Whonix adding age verification?

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Whonix will add age verification api. Please don’t. Ignore it. Privacy disaster for any program in user mode including browser js to query the age verification. Which is required “by law”. New fingerprinting mechanism: age bracket. In two years...

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