Also affects application developers
Also affects application developers
Posted Mar 11, 2026 22:52 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: Also affects application developers by WolfWings
Parent article: California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
Also, this part is curious:
"Covered application store" does not mean an online service or platform that distributes extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, or other software applications that run exclusively within a separate host application.
So, hypothetically, if you made a web browser plugin that let people access gambling sites on the Dark Web that aren't normally accessible... your plugin wouldn't need to worry about the user's age? Or, you could make a shared library that grants access to age-restricted material, but because the code runs "exclusively within a separate host application" you're OK? The law as written is a complete dog's breakfast.
