Christ, google must be salivating

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.

Oz gov yet again doing something unfathomably stupid with tech privacy, shocked I tell ya. Might have to point my SearxNG instance VPN endpoint somewhere else, maybe, see how it pans out...

Interestingly apart from effectively mandating "safe search" on by default, this doesn't appear to attempt to restrict users who aren't logged in.

Do a lot of people log in to search engines?

we're gonna fumble our way forward one way or another!

Just use Qwant. They won't even LET you log in.

EDIT: I think Qwant may have some ties to the far-right. So maybe not Qwant. But I'm not gonna bother checking.

WTF? This sounds incredibly dumb.

It won't protect children from anything but it will annoy TF out of Australians and take away their privacy.

Aaand here it comes. Mandatory gov-verified ID required for any and all online activities.

I've known since the 90's that it was inevitable. And of course not every country will immediately go for it, but eventually they will all follow suit.