Australia is always the testing ground for what they do later. Austalians will accept almost any horrible surveillance, so if they beta test there and Austalians won’t comply, they slow the roll out.

I don’t care if there is a package called gnome-age-verification distributed in my linux distro and would prefer it if it means fewer sites with facial biometric tests. If I have concerns about the age verification, then I should be able to type:

sudo dnf remove gnome-age-verification

California probably wants it in linux distros so that linux can’t be a justification for big tech still demanding Orwellian stuff in every website (ie “but what about the children who use linux? we need to protect them with Persona too!”)

But where would it stop? The hell version of this would be kernel-level-approved-AI-agent-checks, with an OS required to have an approved AI agent with a validated third party key that reports to the government with required telemetry and the kernel makes sure the OS won’t run without the approved AI and then makes illegal any scripts for unapproved kernel code modification. And post-Tornado cash, we know code is unfortunately not protected US speech.

So use plausible.io. There are alternatives and there’s no excuse for this level of tech ignorance unless the non-profit is actively willing to fuck over potential users who don’t end up using the product.

Aren’t there analytics like plausible.io (i do not work for them or have any financial connection) that won’t sell financial data of interested users to data brokers?

Your Socratic questioning has led me to realize the futility of it all.

I edited this in response to your post. You are completely right!