My own usage cratered after the old reddit change. The new site is just not great for reading threads on. And it blocks 18+ content. I noticed I wasn't the only one who had reduced usage, when I did check in, the activity on the subs I used to check was significantly lower.

The problem is adults have to doxx themselves to not lose their accounts. And given the broad scope, you should expect just about all platforms to be covered eventually -- from YouTube to Slashdot.

These days, banks don't even like to give APIs for *read only* access to download your transactions anymore. They've largely killed off OFX at this point. I can understand hesitancy at read/write access, but at least let us download transactions to our software of choice! AI scraping may be our only hope soon.

At least for adult sites, most adults can't be bothered to use these systems. (See article on PornBiz for data - 90% users leave instead of verify). They just visit noncompliant sites instead. I doubt social media will fare much better when you can just tell your friends to text you or move to a noncompliant platform instead of figuring out some separate app. Network effect only goes so far until it hits lazyness effect, and it's easier to reregister somewhere else than navigate government bureaucracy. The social media companies who lobbied for these bills are about to realize they just shot themselves in the foot.

Seems to be a phased rollout. Hasn't hit me yet, but the moment it does my minimal use of reddit will go to zero.

It is interesting how common victim blaming is against single people. I think it may be some form of survivorship guilt, where when married/dating people hear others having a hard time finding a partner, they need to rationalize it because they feel uncomfortable they might end up in the same boat. The "single because they gave up looking" is such a salve since either the single person is lazy (not looking) or impatient (still looking). Neither eventuality is actually thought through, but it makes the blamer feel more righteous as if the single person deserved it.

This isn't about protecting kids, it's about identifying adults.

They're onboard for this because the real goal for kosa/etc is digital id. It was never about protecting kids, it was about data collection and control.

I doubt they care about the content (at an executive level). The content is just the lure to get people onto a platform that they can take a passive 30% fee of every transaction -- that's the real money.

The rare AI enthusiast who prefers windows and can tolerate slow inference performance?

Proton/wine still has some blind spots. If TurboTax is using some old activex controls, that may be the problem. Especially the older embedded internet explorer is hard to get running.

I have been using it for years successfully. Note the state taxes cost money, but not much. Best of all, they are not in the tax lobby so your money doesn't work against you.

Canada senate just passed AV requirements, too. Nowhere is safe from privacy erosion.

An important thing to note is all of the methods tie you to a real identity. Even account age given over the requisite period, it would be enough time for Apple to do data collection for most people (which may be why some old accounts are not considered eligible) This is a hill I will die on - I will not give the OS my identity. I will sooner stop using cell phones entirely, or switch to a pager+Linux laptop. Not even my carrier has it anymore. After I caught T-Mobile selling my PII again after I opted out, I switched to an MVNO with a pseudonym. Can't trust any of these corpos with your PII.

The best use case for it, too. US government restoring freedom to states who took it away.