• artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    The application of age indication is just going to be another metric that these companies use for fingerprinting

    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.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

      Facebook has “apps”, no?

      Last I checked, it had stuff like FarmVille, FrontierVille, etc.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        13·
        1 day ago

        We weren’t talking about apps, we were talking about Facebook like buttons on websites.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          22·
          1 day ago

          Causation:

          1. FaceBook website has apps
          2. FaceBook website is an App store
          3. FaceBook website requires access to Age API
          4. Firefox needs to passthrough Age API to Facebook’s domain
          5. All embedded FaceBook buttons now get to see your OS’s age
            • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
              22·
              1 day ago

              Does the Court ask you?
              Does the legislature?
              Does Meta come to ask what you call an “App Store”?

              • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
                14·
                1 day ago

                The legislation clearly states what is and is not an app store. I’d recommend you mull it over.

                • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
                  21·
                  13 hours ago

                  (3) APP.—The term “app” means a software application or electronic service that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

                  (4) APP STORE.—The term “app store” means a publicly available website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes and facilitates the download of an app from a third-party developer by a user of a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

                  100% sure they all come in the category of an “App Store” when convenient for the lobbyist.