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An extension that bypasses online age verification (furries.club)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I made an extension that bypasses online age verification

To show my stance towards online age verification, I made a small (literally, less than 10 kilobytes) add-on that will completely skip ageverif.net's verification prompt. (Only that site (for now?))

With more and more data breaches going on it's important to protect yourself by not sharing unnecessary data, and to show how broken some age verification platforms are!

It's #opensource too! https://github.com/helloyanis/agechecker.net-bypass (more info on why I do it is in the readme)

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[–] helloyanis@furries.club 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@cm0002 Hey look! It's me! Thanks for the share!! :blobCat_blush:

[–] cm0002@toast.ooo 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Hi! Np, it was crossposted because the community you posted to is on an instance run by authoritarians who propagate Russian propaganda about Ukraine, deny the many China human rights violations and declare the NK isn't actually totalitarian amongst other things

See below for examples and a megathread documenting it

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

Dessalines, head .ml admin, lead Lemmy dev actively spreading genocide denialism https://sh.itjust.works/post/61371958

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] helloyanis@furries.club 1 points 5 days ago

@cm0002 I don't really know about all of the lemmy drama! But even besides that, just in general reposting is good to have more coverage and feedback so it's a win win for everyone!

[–] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's not documentation, you're intentionally twisting people's words to support a specific narrative that wasn't there in the first place.

[–] cm0002@toast.ooo 1 points 5 days ago

Each link is

Supported by a screenshot
- of the in-thread context
- of the mod log entry
Contains links
- To the thread for addl context (where possible)
- To the modlog entry (where possible)
- To any additional supporting context (e.g. an article explaining why [Y] source is misinformation)

Titles are appropriately interpretive, as is anything else in this world.

For example, how else would you interpret dessalines posting this in reply to someone

As something else as "If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics"