> What I would like to take from this is that, by their own definition, desktop apps are out of scope for Age Verification. So does that mean we will see a return of the 'desktop applications' instead of everything being a web service ?
I doubt it unless something odd happens like triggering some reaction. They’ve looked at the data and see the majority of society using “phones”, which are really just increasingly small computers that happen to have a feature to also make calls; and they’ve decided that this trap they’re leading us all into can and may even need to stay open and inviting for a while anyways until the older people die off and desktop form factors kind of fall by the wayside, before the trap is even ready to be sprung. In the mean time they’ll just gaslight and lie about what they’re doing, to save and protect the children of course, until the day that you tune around from a distraction and the trap door is shut behind you.
It’s the same MO as always, with the gullible and naive enablers being essentially the worse threat than the actual perpetrators.
I doubt it unless something odd happens like triggering some reaction. They’ve looked at the data and see the majority of society using “phones”, which are really just increasingly small computers that happen to have a feature to also make calls; and they’ve decided that this trap they’re leading us all into can and may even need to stay open and inviting for a while anyways until the older people die off and desktop form factors kind of fall by the wayside, before the trap is even ready to be sprung. In the mean time they’ll just gaslight and lie about what they’re doing, to save and protect the children of course, until the day that you tune around from a distraction and the trap door is shut behind you.
It’s the same MO as always, with the gullible and naive enablers being essentially the worse threat than the actual perpetrators.