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Discord walks back age verification fears for most users (www.techbuzz.ai)
submitted 2 days ago by ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Too late assholes... I'm already deleting most of the posts I made on my discord and I will be migrating elsewhere soon.

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[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

This became incredibly obvious to me several months ago. I was trying to buy vape parts (coils and tanks, no liquids or batteries or anything) and the site wanted me to do a 3-D selfie to verify my age.

First of all, absolfuckinglutely not. Second of all, metal and plastic aren’t controlled substances so there’s no reason I even should have been carded, much less asked for 3-D face scan shit.. so yeah it wasn’t FOR anything other than data mining.