I made an extension that bypasses online age verification

To show my stance towards online age verification, I made a small (literally, less than 10 kilobytes) add-on that will completely skip ageverif.net’s verification prompt. (Only that site (for now?))

With more and more data breaches going on it’s important to protect yourself by not sharing unnecessary data, and to show how broken some age verification platforms are!

It’s #opensource too! https://github.com/helloyanis/agechecker.net-bypass (more info on why I do it is in the readme)

@privacy

#ageverification #firefox #hacking #web #cybersecurity

  • kutt@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 day ago

    I don’t get it. The block is only a front end thing? No server side check?

    • 🦊 helloyanis :veripawed3:@furries.clubOP
      5·
      15 hours ago

      @kutt The block is a front-end popup that sends ID data to the back-end, and when the back-end completes verification, the front-end dispatches an event and closes the popup window.

      So if, let’s say, an extension replaced the popup script by something that would fire the event immediately, then sites would work!