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discord requiring age verification for 18+ content in march
it wasn't discord that had a data breach that leaked IDs, it was the company they were using for ID age verification.
if they can truly do face scan verification that runs solely on your device, that should be fine. and it's totally possible, by the way. you don't need a crazy AI cluster to do this. whether or not you trust that is what is going on is a different story entirely.
then they still have an algorithm to determine if someone is 18+ or not. there is a bunch of data that could go into this, from the games you play to the vocab you use, to the age of your account.
if you don't trust discord to not expose this data, then don't use discord lmao.
i don't like age verification as much as the next guy, but with the internet being so prevalent i fear it might actually be necessary to help protect children from predators. it's not going to eliminate every case of it, but i do think it will help.
the unfortunate thing is that anything that is done "for the children" immediately sets off people's alarms because of how many things have been passed off as being "for the children" without that actually being the case.
@sendpaws nobody who hasn't already moved somewhere else is going to now unless they solely want to use discord for nsfw shit because that's all it covers.
@sendpaws "oh noez they'll have my data!"
bitch they already have tons of shit on you. discord can probably find out where you live by looking at your posts and your network. if you've paid for nitro, they have your payment information which includes your billing address. don't like it? should have been using some other shit years ago.
@beardalaxy @sendpaws I didn't even know that Discord had porn on it. I assumed that most people use imageboards and boorus for that purpose.
@beardalaxy @xianc78 there's a lot of porn artists who set up shop there, etc., along with easy access to porn as is normal with the web.
re: discord requiring age verification for 18+ content in march
@beardalaxy you're placing a lot of faith in a service run by gay furry pedophiles
re: discord requiring age verification for 18+ content in march
@pettanko it's not that i have faith in them, it's that i don't really care. if people care then they shouldn't be using discord. they shouldn't have been using it for all this time.
re: discord requiring age verification for 18+ content in march
@beardalaxy maybe, i just generally don't like "if you don't like it don't use it" because it can be used to excuse virtually anything.
re: discord requiring age verification for 18+ content in march
@pettanko that's true, it's just funny that people are freaking out and saying they are going to jump ship to an alternative for the 50th time.
re: discord requiring age verification for 18+ content in march
@pettanko i genuinely would tell people that they should move to something else if they're trying to have NSFW servers or whatever, discord isn't really the place for that. the amount of people i see crying over their fifth discord account getting nuked because they posted loli is astonishing.
re: discord requiring age verification for 18+ content in march
@beardalaxy yeah absolutely.
that's fundamentally impossible. Why do you think TPM and kernel anticheat exist? because you need a trusted environment for these things otherwise people will spoof the result
@WandererUber yeah if it is done client side I fully expect people to find a way to spoof it
@beardalaxy
The only way of age verification I consider justifiable:
@beardalaxy they do the face scan shit yeah and so do some KYC providers.
Everyone will either forget after a month or move to something else, guaranteed.