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Comment by JoshTriplett

3 months ago

There is already a set of standards for this: websites can send content ratings to the browser, and the browser can choose not to show content on the basis of those ratings.

We don't need another one, especially one that inverts the polarity by having the browser proactively send information to the site.

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skybrian  3 months ago

Maybe that would work too, but “this device has a child lock turned on” seems like reasonable information to send? It’s a lot better than having to check ID’s.

  • JoshTriplett  3 months ago

    You know what's even better? Not sending anything.

    There's no value in sending that bit of information rather than in using what's already readily provided.

    • darkwater  3 months ago

      Ok but I bet that's easy enough to classify the receiving browser behavior when it gets some rating value from the webserver and it cannot show certain content to user because parental control (i.e. it's not going to do more requests from the same browser fingerprint)