>A Digital Age Assurance Act law (AB 1043) in California, US, effective January 1st, 2027, requires operating systems to ask users to input their birth date during the initial setup to follow child privacy rules.
So what exactly is their plan here?
Are operating systems going to expose some "age bracket API" that browsers then pass to websites?
Because that wouldn't really make sense, it would neither be effective nor send us to some dystopia. Websites can't read anything directly from the OS, the browser has to send a signal. And if the browser is responsible for forwarding the returning signal, one can simply fork a browser or patch it to always return "this guy is an adult".
At best it might stop n00b kids on ipads, but anyone motivated could bypass it pretty quickly.

In any case, I think someone who was able to find Heyuri should know to learn ways for bypassing government surveillance too