![]() ![]() I know most parents don't care and just see the console as a way to shit the whiney kid they honestly should have never had up, but for parents who do care, expecting at least an absolute bare minimum of companies would be nice.Īnd yeah, I readily agree things are stupid right now, but just going "Everyone do whatever they want" isn't exactly good either. But you can't even know how much they're consuming it without you present, and honestly. Especially when they're at a transitional step where you want them to expant to type of media X, but in your presence. So you can't viably make sure you notice your kid doing stuff it shouldn't be doing yet, either. This is problematic when as a parent you actually care, because nowadays the internet has become by far ubiquitous enough for access to be about permanently available. There's not even a fake deep voice and a promise that you're 18 needed when you're actually just 17 buying hard booze or renting a stack of porn movies. Not always perfectly do, but doable.īut in the digital age, assuming shitty pointless age verifications, they just have to click and they're done. In Microsoft Edge editing web requests is an experimental feature, I'd advise against using that browser for this task.Ĭonsider the opposite perspective for a moment: In the age of physical media, keeping your child away from material you as the parent didn't think they were mentally able to handle yet would be doable. It's easy to pull off in Firefox and it's also not hard to do in Chromium/Chrome (although Firefox has better dev tools IMHO). I didn't include any instructions on what exactly to do since I don't know which web browser you use. Where you replace x and y with your sessionid and appid numbers Instead of a GET request it should be a POST request.Ĭontent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoding Open any game store page that works (this is important - you can not do this with the main Steam store page) With this information you can force Steam servers to dismiss the item: Log into the steam website, refresh the main store page and check the made web request, the request header will have a cookie called sessionid with the hexadecimal number you need. This is a hexadecimal number that you send with every web request to the steam server as a cookie header. It's a decimal number, you can't really miss it. You can get that from the URL of the website that gives you the "not available in your country" message. If you're comfortable with editing web requests, it's not that hard to dismiss an item from your discovery queue without actually seeing the storepage. ![]() This is a major escalation of censorship for all German Steam users.Ĭyberpunk 2077 or any other USK18+ rated games (USK = german rating board for games) should be inaccessible to children as well and as such may be banned next. Instead of offering a 'strong' age-verification Steam has now decided to nuke all adult games in the biggest gaming market in Europe. Steam's enter-date-of-birth age-verification is not considered 'strong' and as such Steam offering adult games in Germany is technically illegal.īe aware that twitter or reddit or any other website that also allows adult content doesn't use more than enter-date-of-birth age-verification either - so most of the internet is technically illegal in Germany. However, a 'strong' age-verification is required by law - so that children may not access pornography. Translation: "Such Content is not allowed in your country"įor those not aware of German laws, pornography is of course allowed in Germany. When attempting to access the store page of such games the following message appears: Today, Steam has region-blocked all games that are marked as adult-only on the German store. ![]()
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