Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification

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• RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they ask me to do that I’m gone

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bye!

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• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like an excuse to move my community elsewhere!

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  • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you?

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• JakobFel@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I already don’t use Discord too much, and if they push this, I’m done with it completely.

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• Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  God, I don’t wanna look like a crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist to my friends, but I hope one day they magically get concerned or ask me for privacy respecting alternative services. I haven’t really had the chance to actually test how good Revolt, Matrix, and SimpleX are, but all of them would be worth trying a million times more than Discord.

  I wish we would use Signal instead. But unfortunately I have to resign myself to using Discord and GroupMe for school and friends. At least they don’t hate me for not using Insta, although some randos do seem to be annoyed by my reluctance to use it on first meet.

  It’s just so hard trying not to isolate myself from friends. I get that the alternatives aren’t always great (might lack video calls, easy bot management, sever costs, shitty UX and onboarding, etc.) but we gotta at least give them a try…

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s Facebook Messenger for me. It’s impossible to get everyone to shift. Many of us have had Signal for years.

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• KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Time to look into matrix.org

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• JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are a few qualifiers here. It’s for some users in UK and Australia trying to access sensitive content. And it sounds like it’s reaction to laws against youth under 16 accessing social media. In Australia, anyway. So the scope is currently fairly limited.

  Should we be worried that this will pave the road for larger privacy abuses? Yes, of course we should. That scenario feels likely, in my opinion.

  Is this enough to convince my friends to use a different platform? Not yet.

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  • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Disable camera access to the app/binary

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    • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They could just deny access without verification. But thinking more broadly there’ll certainly be ways to fool the system. But, shouldn’t have to in the first place.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gonna draw a face on my ass and tell Discord that’s what I actually look like.

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  • Wahots@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Send them a pic of your sona

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’d force me to work in their IT department if I did that

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• RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hopped back into VRChat yesterday and i found out it has introduced age verification with ID. If people start requiring that for every fun room i’m cooked.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s Resonite. And Matrix.

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    • RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seems cool. I’m also following the development of V-Sekai(since it uses Godot which i personally like).

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• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Discord can scan deez nuts

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• Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  facial recognition scans require a realtime video feed of you turning your head each way… a fake photo is not going to suffice

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So, some modeling clay and an airbrush then?

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• Sunshine@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is where Authoritarianism begins.

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