Just updated my iPad.

[workshopshed@mastodon.scot]

@joeress just wait 18 years then complain

[bradthornborrow@thecanadian.social]

@joeress Welcome to #Brexit baby!

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@joeress it told me that it used the age of my Apple account to figure out that I am over 18 ‍️

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@joeress … to be clear though, I fully agree, this is not the future we want(ed) and it is not good.

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Tubsta @dch @joeress I've been getting more and more offline in recent years, and honestly there are no drawbacks.

[nowayeast@mastodon.social]

@joeress you might need to be over 18 to open an account but you can add whomever you want as a user. When I was 13 I had a credit card. I have an 8 year old as a user so they can build credit now, even though I shredded the card right after it was activated.

[thevampirefishqueen@socel.net]

@joeress Any update to this?

[thevampirefishqueen@socel.net]

@andypiper @joeress We all need to push back on this hard!

[thevampirefishqueen@socel.net]

@dch @joeress Hopefully we can all push back on this hard.

[ash_wood@mastodon.social]

@joeress oh that's so cursed. it appears the future is offline.

[melroy@mastodon.melroy.org]

@joeress get rid of your apple devices. And windows.

[ottermatic@woof.group]

@joeress that is hideous

[mek2600@infosec.exchange]

@joeress Everyone should just take a picture of the same ID.

[gerowen@mastodon.social]

@joeress If it's one of those things where they want to charge and refund a dollar I usually just give them a Privacy card ( privacy\.com ) number instead of my real one, then pause the card as soon as I get the refund back so they can't use it in the future without permission.

[arcadiagt5@mstdn.social]

@joeress Makes note to continue deferring that update…

[dogiedog64@app.wafrn.net]

@joeress@mastodon.social

I've said it before and I'll say it again; these companies are gonna have to pry this information from my fucking cold & bloody corpse with a crowbar before I hand it over to them. Fuck this Technofascist bullshit.

A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, AND IT DOESN'T BEGIN WITH A SURVEILLANCE STATE!!!

[dshan@mastodon.au]

@joeress I got an email from Google recently saying they'd switched off/on certain things in my account because they couldn't confirm that I was "an adult" (things like setting on safe search, etc.). Thing is, I've had that Google account for about 20 years now ...

Instead of going through their age verification bs routine I logged into my Google account and switched off/on the things they'd changed. Seems to have worked.

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@joeress YEa I got something like that on the iPad I got from a grant. NOpe.

[iampytest1@infosec.exchange]

@melroy The problem isn't Apple. The UK government is requiring all companies to perform such age checks, and many other places like the EU and California are following suit. Companies - and even open source projects - have to obey the law, even if they or their users disagree with it.
The law doesn't specifically require companies ask for credit cards - and that's a pretty poor way to handle age verification. However, other methods also are bad for their own reasons, requiring users to either submit to a racist and invasive face scan, or provide an ID.

Apple and Microsoft are horrible companies, but for other reasons. Moreover, as we are seeing with California, open source operating systems are also required to comply. Software developers should not and can not simply pick and choose what laws they obey.
Its unfair to blame them for the UK's poorly written mass surveillance and censorship legislation. The blame lies with the UK government, and with every other government mandating this.

[jbrownesq@mastodon.social]

@joeress nope. Full stop. No device or platform I use will ever force me into fascist surveillance capitalism, and Ill stop using any device or platform if there is no way to break it, work around it, disable it. Ive already done this with that thing people call "the smartphone". No more smartphones in our home, and there will not be for the foreseeable future.