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So under your proposal, all checks would happen exclusively on the end-user device. Websites would do absolutely no age checking, nor would they get any kind of signed certificate from end-user devices vouching for the user's age. Am I understanding this correctly?

Would this not immediately lead to demands for hardware makers to prevent the installation of non-compliant operating systems?

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White-listed sites could report the content rating (for example in HTTP headers) and the browser in "child mode" would refuse to display non-appropriate content. Lack of the header means that content is for adults only (unless parents manually white list the site). Also, websites could use different domain for "child mode" version.

> Would this not immediately lead to demands for hardware makers to prevent the installation of non-compliant operating systems?

In child mode, yes, installation of any other OS (compliant or not) should be prevented.

>In child mode, yes, installation of any other OS (compliant or not) should be prevented.

Not just in child mode, because child mode would only exist in compliant operating systems. It would not exist in all Linux or Android distributions for instance.

So governments would have collude with or regulate hardware vendors to control and certify what can run on the hardware available in the country.

This would be a highly centralised system with the potential the become tyrannical.

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