God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).
Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it’s been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257
…why are we talking about JS and fingerprinting?
The application of age indication is just going to be another metric that these companies use for fingerprinting and person identification, one that some analyst on their inside possibly considered a useful data point.
And while this particular API might be an easy one to target, for removal as a patch, it might end up being part of a JS framework that many websites use and will break in case the return value is not available.
So if people require sites to work, this will become just another feature, requiring similar mitigations to other JS features I mentioned, that will need to be handled in a way that it increases the anonymity of the user, lest the user be subjected to harassment.
By “harassment”, I mean the actual inescapable kind, not just random internet trolls.
As I said, there’s nothing to suggest they would receive such an indicator, as far as I’m aware. The indicator is only required between the app store and the OS.
Facebook has “apps”, no?
Last I checked, it had stuff like FarmVille, FrontierVille, etc.
We weren’t talking about apps, we were talking about Facebook like buttons on websites.
Causation:
That’s not an app store.
Does the Court ask you?
Does the legislature?
Does Meta come to ask what you call an “App Store”?
The legislation clearly states what is and is not an app store. I’d recommend you mull it over.