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by trumpdong 6 days ago
There's a selection effect. Some people thought these were bad and didn't implement them. Other people thought they weren't bad and implemented them. We use implementations from the latter group of people. Obviously.

Same thing is happening with age verification. We had the chance to just ask if the user is over 18 when setting the computer up, but we didn't do that so they're using a solution from a mass surveillance company instead.