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Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

All Linux distros either come with parental controls or have a way of installing them. This age verification shit was never about protecting the children.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    when I was looking I have found exactly zero parental controls for linux. which ones do you know?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Gnome has parental control https://help.gnome.org/gnome-help/parental-controls.html

    But it has some serious limitations: for example, you cannot block individual website reliably. Parents can consider piholes, but DNS sink hole on local network are often trivial to bypass.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    this is just limiting what apps can be opened, and it only works for flatpak apps. how will you disable all the other apps that are installed? how do you disable the shell which could be used to download a non-flatpak browser?

    and as you said it does not even try to limit which websites are allowed to be visited, or for how much time can the computer be used. a pihole can be circumvented with DoH, for which there is an easy toggle in firefox, probably chrome too

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Don't give your kids root permission so they can't install non-flatpak apps.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    of course, but no root permission is needed for that. flatpak packages can be installed on the user level, but even if you somehow disable that, they could still just download firefox (or anything else) as a tarball, unpack it and run it traditionally

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