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3 days agoBut they could still just request the age bracket that is stored on the system at the time of download, no?
It’s not at all impossible, it just has to be implemented.
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No, you’re just wrong. The law just says, there needs to be a local API, that apps can use to ask, what of 4 age brackets the user is in. That’s basically it. There is nothing about some online server that needs to hold that data.
Yeah, don’t get me wrong, this is an insane law. It makes no sense and it is utterly ridiculous and dystopian.
I am just saying, that it is still manageable to continue, we shouldn’t give up. We should continue to fight against this law, but we can also realistically keep distributing our software regardless of this law.
I think, the age thing only has to be implemented by the operating system, not by every piece if software. We as app developers can then choose to use an API to age restrict our apps, if we want to.
We just have to make sure our app isn’t recognized as an operating system in itself.