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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
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[–] Comet79@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

DM the mods to fix channels. If they refuse, you'll have to leave. Don't give Discord any info. A community I was in moved to an alternative and it's still there, right after Discord announced it would implement ID registrations.

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 1 points 1 hour ago

Don’t give Discord any info

That's the idea. I'm hoping people have an idea of some method to bypass it that actually works. Maybe a particular video or game that still works well. Giving them useless data.

Fwiw, they don't do the age verification themselves. They contract it out to a third party. And as much as I trust neither entity very far, I do trust that the third party probably isn't handing over that data to Discord. I'm more worried about the third-party being hacked/leaking data, which has already happened.