The how isn’t the point - the point is that the what means the end of anonymous casual web browsing.
No more firing up incognito mode to view some YouTube video you’d rather not feed your algorithm. No more browsing the ‘other side’ on twitter privately. No googling for information about embarrassing rashes without Google and webmd knowing exactly who you are.
> No more firing up incognito mode to view some YouTube video you’d rather not feed your algorithm. No more browsing the ‘other side’ on twitter privately. No googling for information about embarrassing rashes without Google and webmd knowing exactly who you are.
I agree with you on principal and don’t mean to sound dismissive but they’re all doing this already.
When I’m trying to look at anything on Twitter it shortly launches a full screen thing demanding I login (I refuse to sign up).
YouTube requires sign-in for age restricted content.
Google, most annoyingly, makes me complete several captchas for using incognito+private relay
Instagram won’t open in safari with incognito+private relay; I have a throwaway account for just looking at the odd link someone sends me in a meme group-chat; I have to use another browser.
I often have to replace “www.whatever.reddit” to “old.reddit” on my phone to be able to see an “age restricted” post, most of the time they aren’t anything a kid shouldn’t be see either, not sure how they’re determining that.
In my humble opinion, children should be prevented from browsing much of the horrific content and/or pornographic content on the internet, and I think it is worth thinking about how to prevent it.
This is a fascinating idea. The only way to preserve a modicum of privacy would be if the certificates are issued by a privacy-regulated authority, are not directly attached to your identity, and are trivial to renew / replace, but seems doable
It could also be done by requiring you to submit a photograph of yourself and your state-issued ID with intact image metadata. I wonder which would be less expensive to implement, and which would be simpler for a customer base to adopt.
No more firing up incognito mode to view some YouTube video you’d rather not feed your algorithm. No more browsing the ‘other side’ on twitter privately. No googling for information about embarrassing rashes without Google and webmd knowing exactly who you are.
This is not cool.