Apple's new iOS age verification in the UK sparks outrage as users warn they may switch to Android over privacy and ID concerns.
  • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    3 hours ago

    The phone makers want your data just as much as the government does. Data is money and power.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      They have other ways of determining your age without requiring an extremely unpopular ID check.

      • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Some are accepting having a credit card in Wallet as proof of age, as well as simply having an old enough Apple account

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          41 minutes ago

          My Apple account is only like a decade old but if YouTube asks me for age verification I’m gonna be writing them a sternly worded letter because my account is old enough to buy alcohol in my country