I made an extension that bypasses online age verificationTo 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! github.com/helloyanis/agecheck (more info on why I do it is in the readme)@privacy #ageverification #firefox #hacking #web #cybersecurity

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[–] 30 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Lol, is it just an onclosed function call?!

I myself haven't seen any age verification popups yet, due to me always being on a VPN, but I admire you for writing the bypass and making it open source.

I hope this continues to work, but seeing how dystopian the surveillance is getting, I won't be surprised if everything is handled in the backend in the near future (client <-> server, client <-> verification provider, server <-> verification provider); sort of like how payments are handled.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    It might get there eventually but for now we can probably continue to coast on various combinations of general ineptitude, cheapness, laziness, and ignorance on part of people implementing these systems.

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