Exactly this + websites transforming into SPAs, loading lots of JS chunks, displaying spinners and placeholders, 2FAs, login requests, captchas everywhere. Web browsing is now a very frustrating and time-wasting experience!
No, they will just encrypt firmware, add more signature verifications and lock devices to accounts in order to complicate reuse, increase sales and produce more ewaste.
I agree, but like many others I'm willing to pay a fair price for that freedom and ownership, and I believe there is a customer base to be captured. And in the end there's a cost for a company to put all of those locks in place, which they could simply avoid.
You are using MITM proxy as a service. In addition to analyzing all traffic and blocking legitimate users with captchas, they can inject stuff in there, too.
Unsuspecting reader: if you think this comment is interesting please search "deCloudflare" and "crimeflare" on the Internet. The repo is abandoned but it's still regularly taken down whenever it's uploaded. Cloudflare is literally the GFW of the world, is involved in a lot of suspicious activities and a huge danger to future of the open web. The company started as an intelligence honeypot service originally got funded by DHS in '08. You can DYOR on how things moved on from there.
It's not only about blocking access to porn websites but children can access whatsapp groups where child predators are. Why can children access this content in those communication apps? It sounds like providers of these platforms must prevent children accessing those becquse children need to use such platforms to coordinate on their assignments and homeworks. This can be solved by having a "children-type" device account as someone else suggested. The app would know a child is using it and block access. No government id needed.
On Linux I am using https://github.com/wrr/drop which configures bubblewrap based on a simple yaml config specific for the project path and it is enough for me.
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