Ubuntu is planning to comply with Age Verification law
taubek
16 points
3 comments
March 04, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
AllegedAlec
Absolute insanity
voakbasda
Time for malicious compliance? Add telemetry to an app, prohibit its use in states with such laws, then start turning in users to the State. Specifically, target only those individuals involved in government. Overwhelm the system and watch it collapse.
Symbiote
This is a Reddit discussion about a mailing list discussion. Canonical's actual announcement (saying they don't yet have an announcement) is here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntus-response-to-californi...