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requiring the OS to broadcast an age bracket to every app and website is building a new tracking vector and calling it child safety lol


None of these people actually care about children.


Is it worse than Accept-Language? It's got less bits of entropy.


Is that still higher entropy when you already (necessarily) have the IP address?

225.12.3.11 sends two requests, both with accept-language nl_BE

226.4.5.244 sends two requests, one with age bracket 13–15 and one with bracket 18+

Which group is easier to track people within a (NAT) household..


One is also using a phone and one is using a laptop.




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