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inetknght | on: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
> This is a non-issue because it's almost certainly going to be gated behind a permission prompt.

lol.

> Moreover is it really that much of a privacy loss if you go on steam, it asks you to verify you're over 18, and the OS says you're actually over 18?

Slippery slope, but an interesting argument. While SteamOS is a thing, Steam isn't my OS.

> Given touch id was introduced over a decade ago, and the associated doom-mongering predilections did not come to pass, I think it's fair to conclude it's a dud.

Really? You think that things built decades ago can't be further built-upon in the now or the future?

gruez | parent
>Slippery slope, but an interesting argument. While SteamOS is a thing, Steam isn't my OS.

You mean non slippery slope?

>Really? You think that things built decades ago can't be further built-upon in the now or the future?

If there's no deadlines for predilections, how can we score them? Should we still be worried about some yet undiscovered way that cell phones are causing cancer, despite decades of apparently no harmful side effects?