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How do you ban access to a website based on the OS of the user?


By requiring hardware attestation, like Private Access Tokens in iOS/MacOS (see https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-... for example) and Web Environment Integrity and its successors ( https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-In... ).


That sounds horrible



2003 deserves its own thread that's a great write up.


It has been submitted many times, but was only really discussed in 2012: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337626>



That one is not really about either the internet, or even computers.


According to the existing law, Facebook can't provide service to any user whose OS doesn't say they're old enough. According to this new law, Linux won't say that. So Linux users won't be allowed to use Facebook.


I’m sure there will be a package available on day 1 that will tell all sites you’re 30+ and should be allowed in. Probably even just a Firefox add-on, not a full OS package.




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