Comment by scotty79
7 months ago
> I would strongly prefer that forums I visit not expose me to child pornography.
While almost everybody including me shares this perference maybe it should be something that browsers could do? After all why put the burden on countless various websites if you can implement it in a single piece of software?
This could also make it easier to go after people who are sources of such material because it wouldn't immediately disappear from the network often without a trace.
> While almost everybody including me shares this perference maybe it should be something that browsers could do? After all why put the burden on countless various websites if you can implement it in a single piece of software?
If I recall correctly, Apple tried to do that and it (rightly) elicited howls of outrage. What you're asking for is for people's own computers to spy on them on behalf of the authorities. It's like having people install CCTV cameras their own homes so the police can make sure they're not doing anything illegal. It's literally Big Brother stuff. Maybe it would only be used for sympathetic purposes at first, but once the infrastructure is built, it would be a tempting thing for the authorities to abuse (or just use for goals that are not universally accepted, like banning all pornography).
Apple tried to do that obligatory, taking away control from user. Which of course is a terrible idea.
I don't want my browser to report me if I encounter illegal materials. I want the browser to anonymously report the website where they are, at most and even that, only if I don't disable reporting.
People do install cctv cameras in their homes but they are (or at least believe to be) in control of what happens with the footage.
So basically you want your browser to be controlled by the governement and remove ones ability to use their browser of choice?
All this because a negligible amount of web user upload CSAM?
No, I want my browser to be controlled by me. It should just be more capable so I'm not getting exposed to materials that I don't like getting exposed to and maybe easily report them if I want. Like adblock but for illegal or undesirable online materials.
> All this because a negligible amount of web user upload CSAM?
Still it's better to fix it in the browser than keep increasingly policing the entirety of the internet to keep it neglible.
Love to never be able to see photos of my child at the beach because Google Chrome tells me I'm a criminal.
Unless you tell Google Chrome it's ok and you actually want to see photos of naked children in some whitelisted contexts.