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That would be an interesting approach, but browsers are easily switched (to a "jailbroken" one) and I wouldn't trust windows with such information... Linux would be fine, but I guess the linux community would at least be torn on this one (though I might ofc be wrong)
like others said, there are downsides to every approach. Browser based would probably be the most reliable though, the bar for going around it would require a separate device or someone knowing how to install a completely different OS, under the age of 18, without their parents knowledge.
Which of course I knew how to do back in the days of Windows XP, but again that's a very high bar for most people.
I can see Lemmy taking an official approach of "We'll wait for that" because otherwise it's scanning IDs on one end of the spectrum and the other end is a button that says "Yeah I'm totally over 18"
If you're old enough to get around those controls, you're old enough to view porn, frankly. It's like a rite of passage that I went through 15 years ago... the parental controls were also much worse then, so it's arguably more effective now.
Exactly my approach. Plus, I can't, for the life of me, wrap my head around why porn is such an ever present concern, when so many other things, arguably as harmful, or IMHO more so, are apparently "totally okay".
Yes, sure, porn addiction can be a problem, but I feel that this topic is actually a common fetish of certain people, who will happily ignore the neurological consequences of OTHER types of harmful content and behavior: YouTube autoplay, the constant stream of ads aimed at making us consume every single last bit of resource on the planet for 10 people's net worth, the desensitization to violence, especially against beings different to us (different skin color, beliefs, species, etc)...
Yeah, but no. None of those things are a problem. Just PoOoOoOoRnNn... Will someone please think of the children?? And then what? Make a mandatory retinal scan before you can move a muscle? We wouldn't want people to actually get addicted to the only last good thing they have in their life, right? All this, because we achieved making a truly ground breaking rotten society, and people's "porn addiction" says more about the extent of their despair than anything else, really...
From what I understand it would work as other parental controls like on streaming services - i.e. parents of minors would configure the browser so it cannot open "inappropriate" content. The information wouldn't need to leave the device ever.