alt Hacker NewsHow would that work when the service has mixed content? You'd have to go to kids.facebook.com to get the child-friendly version? With a client-sent signal they can just filter it, the same way Accept-Language can automatically translate the UI.
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AnthonyMouse • yesterday at 5:55 PM
Elements that contain adult content are tagged and then the user agent doesn't display them.
This also has the extremely useful benefit of making you aware that something is being censored, because then it has a censorship box in place of the content. Whenever censorship is happening it should be flagrantly conspicuous rather than invisible.
But why do we need it at the os level? Couldn't a parent just set a header in the browser for their kid and be done with it?