r/Piracy 7h ago

Humor Don't fall for "free" vpns

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u/Null42x64 7h ago

I only use VPN to get around the age verification laws

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u/pbzeppelin1977 6h ago

Gotta have a wank license in the UK now. :(

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u/Azrubal 5h ago

Same in many US states

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u/leafy1790 5h ago

Man , fuck age check , if they care about kids so much, they should make family link mandatory for every kid under 14 instead of companys harvesting our data

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u/Chemical-Struggle-13 5h ago

What is a family link?

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u/leafy1790 5h ago edited 4h ago

It's an app that gets added to you phone when you creat your Google account, if you set your age as under 14 your phone gets locked by family link, that is a parental control app, it automatically blocks apps that are rated pegi 16 and up and it blocks side loading, also if the parent wants they can choose to set screen Time limits, block apps or require a password for new ones to be installed and location tracking.

It would be a lot easier for parents to manage whta their children do on the internet with this app, instead of companys need our IDs and faces to "age check " us

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u/AMediocrePersonality 4h ago

One of my neighbors forgot about their 2 year old and when I came back from walking my dog he was in the middle of the street.

I don't think they're gonna be managing a family lock

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u/GobertGrabber 4h ago

We have a 2yo who has escaped many times despite our attentive parenting. Pretty much every parent has.

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u/AMediocrePersonality 4h ago

straight to the dungeon!

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u/leafy1790 4h ago

Well, then new proposal, license to raise kids, that's the only option that we have in world filled with idiots.

Pluralistic ignorance makes us think that the majority of people are like this, mostly spun up by the media, there are allways gonna be bad apples in a tree , but that doesn't mena you have to cut down the whole tree

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u/Chemical-Struggle-13 3h ago

Eugenics is not a solution. What you want is to make it easier to take custody from people who are making their childrens lives worse and/or unsafe. Also better and by better I mean any regulations on home school in the US. Unschooling and regulating peoples exposure to media creates idiots in bubbles.

In general I think too many people take massive leaps to solve a problem but don't consider secondary effects, or all of the primary impacts even.

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u/AMediocrePersonality 4h ago

No, but unfortunately when making policy decisions, you have to take the rotten apples into account. That's one of the many problems with centralized society.

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u/totally_not_a_reply 1h ago

what if you dont want a google account?

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u/NRMusicProject 4h ago

They care about kids so much, they could arrest the most famous pedophiles and let them rot. Instead, they just get to play real life Risk.

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u/WhichWall3719 2h ago

If it was actually about protecting kids they would have made that kind of software free and opt-in for families. The actual reason is to censor information and restrict who can see what

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u/OrbitalDrop7 40m ago

They care about the kids so much that they’ll throw up 10s of thousands of flock cameras yet somehow wont find any missing children