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By excalpius · Posted
That's helpful, thanks. The key issue as I see it is that the issuer of the verification is still getting that request from WhateverNaughty.com, which immediately becomes a problem if this is a government issuer, etc. but it's a huge problem for any user with any issuer. I guess the solution, and maybe this goes without saying and I've missed it in your fine posts, is that the requester is also anonymized. That way, the issuer doesn't have a record of X person requested verification for Y website. And anyone who hacks that data is going to get precisely nothing. This only works is, as you say, this is a one-time challenge each time, and we all agree that no one is keeping/storing that data for any use anyway. After all, "is this person 18+ age" would only respond Yes/No, which is hardly actionable by anyone...as long as the asker only gets Yes/No and the Answerer doesn't know or care who's asking. :) Are both ends anonymized? -
By TRS-80 · Posted
It definitely can be especially if you live in a dorm or frat/sorority house during your time in college. However, for many who live at home or in their own off campus residence and commute to classes it can be just about the classes. That is how it was for me. Except for classes, time in the library and some time in the student union mostly for eating and taking a break between classes, I was never on compus -
By TRS-80 · Posted
As one person commented on my use of my old Pocophone, they are also MP3 players. -
By excalpius · Posted
They do not. I know this personally, but let's use some evidence instead. For example, Europe and other nations aren't drenched in neverending ads like we are (think soccer being the most popular world sport and yet there are no ads during/delaying the gameplay itself, unlike every sport in America). The truth is that it's all just a ridiculous shell game between marketing/ad people who want to keep their jobs and websites/networks who want to keep charging for air time for ads to be funded. And, of course, the enshittification of everything for ever increasing quarterly returns for Wall Street only matters here, not everywhere else. We all know that consumers ignore commercials and block the ads now, so we know it doesn't lead to enough sales to justify this cashola merry-go-round. But they are still thinking like this is still the good old days of TV and, quite frankly, they don't know any better... The better solution, of course, is sponsorship -- a way of advertising your product and associations in a meaningful way, without bombarding annoyed consumers with the same damn ad for the same damn product at every single forced commercial break. -
By TRS-80 · Posted
That is also my understanding of Apple's support for their older devices.
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