It's an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It's not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it's standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it's entirely optional.
Hence, please move your discussion elsewhere, you are misunderstanding what systemd does here. It enforces zero policy, it leaves that up for other parts of the system.
And sorry, I am really not interested in these discussions here. it's not the right place for this, and please don't bring it here. Thank you.
Especially given that a lot of us are interested in content filtering, just that we want to be in control of what we're subjected to, cf adblockers.
I'd be super fine with it if I could tune, say, the YouTube app on our TV to not subject me to ads for illegal gambling sites, fossil fuels, vacations in authoritarian regimes, etc.
But that's exactly what they don't want us to have control over, because that means lost income.
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technohacker@programming.dev · 45 pts · 134d
That PR seems to have been closed rather than merged though, I don't think it has reverted the change yet
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 24 pts · 134d
Not reverted. Closed, not merged.
It still remains.
SwooshBakery624@programming.dev · 17 pts · 134d
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179#issuecomment-4090834541
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al · 5 pts · 133d
I think the response given is unwarranted. Sure lots of heated discussion in other places but this was a PR, and a well presented one too.
org@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 133d
This data should not be on the system level at all. What’s next, gender? Race? We all know why this was done, and doing it was shameful.
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 133d
Especially given that a lot of us are interested in content filtering, just that we want to be in control of what we're subjected to, cf adblockers.
I'd be super fine with it if I could tune, say, the YouTube app on our TV to not subject me to ads for illegal gambling sites, fossil fuels, vacations in authoritarian regimes, etc.
But that's exactly what they don't want us to have control over, because that means lost income.
refalo@programming.dev · 0 pts · 133d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
markz@suppo.fi · 15 pts · 133d
That's a rejected pr