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Theory falls flat quickly when discovering there's actualy people who will never think 1 step futher.

Unless that computer happens be on traffic lights. Will this become CVE? Human life would be at risk.

We have laws to combat the disinformation, its just we just stopped enforcing it because it was the political's best interests. Like we actually have fined (X for 120M).

So solution is gate it behind age? It doesnt fix disinformation problem, i refuse to belive that they cant just run transcription via AI and spot disinformation to delete. If EU thinks AI is good enough to invade our privacy via chat control. Why not use this to combat disinformation? or even easier just find repeating messages and block that (since lots campaigns work like this)

Theres so many solutions before having to resort age gate, the worst is. Putting it behind gate doesnt protect from people who can vote, so what they are even trying fix there?

People also seem forget, on household, we share devices with children. So user can share +18 flag easy as parents are lending tablet for them play games. Im referring the OS level age verification system which is happening around US.

My guess is they own accounts which show the ads, so they get paid for showing ads. This is similar how those "get free money" apps work, they own Ad account and get paid when you view/click that ad.

Another theory is since lots free games have where you can earn in-game currency for viewing ads, the bot farms might be abusing this method.

Its resource allocation problem, same happened with .com bubble, lots investors put tons of money into dark fibers. Were they useless? No its very useful.

If you want check a example company from the .com days check cisco, their stock peaked at 75 then crashed hard and only managed hit that again thanks for the AI bubble.

Your argument about reddit doesn't really hold up, they can post data embedded into images or illegal materials in photos or videos.

Malware can extract data from embedded metadata from media, there's even video by benn jordan about it.

Governments aren't clearly willing to regulate the companies. They just let them do whatever they want once they're too big to regulate. Internet Companies has 20 years of history of datamining for sake advertising. Still nothing is done about, why even allow them obtain even more leverage?

The characters on those video resemble alot certain mainstream works, isn't this very problematic?

Damn, I didn't even considered this angle. Lot's 18+ items dont actually require age verification online. Yet porn/socials are being subjected to it.

Just shows what priorities are.

I think he means since IANA/ICANN assings country LTD, so technically it's also under USA jurisdiction.

Waiting for the day when texas court demands deleting .ee LTD (since estonia is currently only country which has fought agaisnt age verification laws)

I wonder why they're spreading this message. EU just went after Meta and Tiktok for the addictive design.

Why not wait the results of this? They allowed children get brainfucked for 9+ years. Whats one or two more years? If we need do something now just ban phones from schools, this had excellent results all over countries.

Then let's see if the harms still exceeds positives. Since seriously internet contains so much rich information and educative content. Not mention lots safe places for LGBTQ, which is being age gated behind 18+ for some reason. You cant even buy a flag without age verification. It's absurd.

The author seems forget that AI crawlers use millions residental proxies, so simply having proof of work indeed blocks them. If they reused proof of work with different IP, they'd be detected very quickly. Or the proof of work is linked to IP. The anubis is activately updated so im not fully following it. If they re-use IP then they'd be ratelimited.

Another advantage is requiring cookie storage, which lots crawler seem be lacking for some reason. Since most common http clients support them. When the crawlers are doing lots of requests at once, needing JS engine would add a lot of overhead aswell. So its multiple factors which makes this viable method so far.

I think the blog author is misinformed about the session id? If you use that for marketing purposes, you need cookie prompt. The GDRP says only necassary cookies, if you also reuse the login cookies for purposes. It's not longer necassary right?

Otherwise it'd be so blatant loophole, you can only use cookies for their intended purposes and not reuse for them other purposes. I remember some details when i needed a way to prioritize user traffic via cookies, since lots malicous traffic dont have cookie storage, as long i didnt retain the cookie ID used for load balancing, as all information would be lost on reboot of haproxy process. I didnt need cookie prompt, but if i also used that for other purposes like visitor tracking, then I'd need cookie prompt even before setting the cookie.

Im not lawyer, but thats how I understood.

Running Local LLM isn't really a lot effort anymore, since its one command away to get the familar interface of chat AI. This setup requires 24GB ish VRAM and 32GB ram, so if you have capable gaming PC which can do AAA games, you can run it.

- llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-GGUF:Q4_K_M

After that simply open browser and enter: http://localhost:8080

What this does: This will download Gemma4 AI with 26B param & start a http server for chat

Its shockingly capable for its size. Does it beat the top end models? No, but as long your don't fall into the hallucations. Its just fine.

Edit: the software is llama.cpp you can download it from "releases" which u can find at github right side. No need to know how to build it

Edit2: Pro tip is, only use chat per context you want to use. Lots users want "dynamically" change the context, but that doesnt really work from my experience.

UK already technically banned encryption, causing Apple to remove the encrypted cloud service for UK customers. Check UK's "Investigatory Powers Act (IPA)"