@Gonzako Shameless plug, I made an extension to try and bypass this on some sites! Free and open source too.

https://github.com/helloyanis/age-verification-bypass

@Skyline969 I meant you won’t be able ti use the disc drive for that’s still being sold full price today for games beyond 2028. I edited the post to clear that up.

Also, PC gaming is digital but most of the times you have the game files downloaded somewhere, you can make a backup, and unless the game is online only you can theoratically play it forever.

With this, once Sony eventually takes down the store just like they did for the PS Vita, then you won’t be able to play games at all, and will very likely be the proud owner of a fancy black and white brick. They can also remove games from your library and this will make you unable to buy used games.

@Duke_Nukem_1990 For this one verification platform at least, yeah

@Fmstrat Well technically I added support for another platform just now (see github) and so I changed the name. I don’t think in 1 day I had too many users lol

@cipherd Snooping around in the console and not wanting to show my face to some random website! Also, reading the docs on their site helped.

More technical details https://github.com/helloyanis/agechecker.net-bypass/issues/14#issuecomment-4801644570

@birdwing I don’t have an account there but if you have one, feel free to do so! The code is MIT licensed so you can redistribute and even modify it if you want.

@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!

@Fmstrat When it works on other site I will change the name! For now it only works on agecheck.net so it’s named like that to not confuse people who haven’t read this post.

@TheDarkQuark if they change it, then all of the websites using it will also have to change their code. But I don’t think they will change it unless the extension goes crazy viral, they won’t bother imo

@Maeve @privacy Yeah it doesn’t need to be done right away! Take care of your things! :dragn_mlem:

@Maeve @privacy I didn’t think when waking up today that I would be called “Furry savior” ! But I don’t mind hehe!

Feel free to tell me if it works on librewolf so I know!

@Maeve @privacy Haven’t tried but it should be! Follow the instructions on GitHub!

@bamboo Not sure if that’s exactly what you mean but each site can set up the age verification by loading a script and adding event callbacks, like redirect_url to set an URL to be redirected to once the verification is over, and onclosed which occurs when the verification is successful, and where the site can set some code to run.

So if you just block the popup, it never appears and can never fire onclose and the code that happens after will never run.

Since sites are often minified and obfuscated, and the call for the popup can come from any file, I just replaced the response to requests to the popup URL, to have my own script that fires the event and/or redirects to the page, so that it works every time.

I think the only way to counter this is, if they change the URL (I can later update it too, or if a website hosts their own version of the file (so it will be at a different URL and be undetected). But all of these have easy workarounds as well.

@ZeroHora This is just a facade so that we eventually take over the world, but shh!!

@bamboo I dont’t think so? I’m not sure how uBO filters works but the popup file is supposed to send an event to the main page to let it know that the verification is done and I don’t think uBO filters can do that

@rockSlayer Glad you like it! Hopefully it gets approved on the store so it can be installed more easily!

@perviouslyiner Okay that one is also really funny lol, where even is that? Is anyone supposed to bike for 10m then dismount, and walk 5m, remount and repeat?

Where this photo was taken, there are pedestrian crossings on bike lanes just like roads and bikes are supposed to stop and let pedestrians cross, but not dismount every time, that’s just nonsense lol

@ciapatri I don’t think that’s the case because the intersection is just for bikes. See the map, the picture was taken there and the blue dashed line is the cycling lane.

The signs mean “Beginning of bike lane” and “End of bike lane”

I think they finished the cycling lane first and installed the “End of bike lane” and later they continued it and for some reason instead of removing/moving the old sign, they made a new one!

@eestileib Cars don’t even cross there! The picture was taken here, the blue dashed line is the cycling lane.