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Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by pfych »

kevinh wrote: post #24
cocoto wrote: post #4

The real and robust method will be generating artificial video input instead of the real webcam. I really don’t think any platform will be able to counter this. If they start requiring to use a phone with harder to spoof camera input, you will simply be able to put the camera in front of a high resolution screen. The cat and mouse game will not last long.

Alternatively, hand someone $20 and your phone and have them do the verification for you.

This is just what I did, and plan to continue to do.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by chrysoprace »

wileydragonfly wrote: post #26
gruez wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>You require a human to identity proof in real life and bind that to a digital identity That's going to be a no from me, dawg. I'm sympathetic to ID checks like if you're buying beer or whatever, but not linking my real life identity to discord or whatever.

Why should anyone inclined to want to buy beer have to show ID to do it?

I don't know how it works where you live, but in many jurisdictions around the world (including the one I live in), you have to provide ID to prove that you're of drinking age.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by dark-star »

0x1ch wrote: post #25
scarygliders wrote: post #17

It does appear to work. I received a message from Discord saying "We determined you're in the adult group. " narrator> And that's when he discovers his account has now been hacked... ;)

Worked for me as well. Hopefully my account of 11+ years isn't penalized because of this. Not like it matters because I'll quit anyways if forced to send my face or ID.

You probably won't even have to validate then. I guess they can safely assume that you didn't create your account when you were 7 years or younger. They said they expect 80% of users or so to be auto-verified by some other means (account age, typing statistics, whatever)

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by Anonbrit »

GaryBluto wrote: post #39

I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them and that they do not like. Does the convenience of remaining on a service you don't like the management of outweigh the mild effort to find an alternative solution?

I don't control most of the discord communities I'm in. Some have been going a long time, and every platform migration sheds and shreds members. The 'mild effort' to move an old community to a new platform more often than not killed the community

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by Computer0 »

GaryBluto wrote: post #39

I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them and that they do not like. Does the convenience of remaining on a service you don't like the management of outweigh the mild effort to find an alternative solution?

I am sure that is part of the appeal to the developing mind, the adversarial nature.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by GaryBluto »

Anonbrit wrote: post #45
GaryBluto wrote: post #39

I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them and that they do not like. Does the convenience of remaining on a service you don't like the management of outweigh the mild effort to find an alternative solution?

I don't control most of the discord communities I'm in. Some have been going a long time, and every platform migration sheds and shreds members. The 'mild effort' to move an old community to a new platform more often than not killed the community

> and every platform migration sheds and shreds members.

What's the problem? You're filtering out people who don't really care about participation in whatever group or society is there. People who want to participate will move to an acceptable service and those who feel that is too much effort probably weren't participating much (if at all) anyway - in that case the only difference is the visible list of people with accounts going down, not the actual "users".

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by subscribed »

dark-star wrote: post #35
gruez wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>You require a human to identity proof in real life and bind that to a digital identity That's going to be a no from me, dawg. I'm sympathetic to ID checks like if you're buying beer or whatever, but not linking my real life identity to discord or whatever.

You have to show ID to buy beer?

If you aren't obviously adult then yeah. Where do you live so there are no laws on selling the alcohol to children?

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by jwkerr »

GaryBluto wrote: post #39

I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them and that they do not like. Does the convenience of remaining on a service you don't like the management of outweigh the mild effort to find an alternative solution?

Most people don’t really care that their privacy is violated, at least not any more than a superficial “oh well it’s obvious they’re doing that, but what can you do about it!”, no point switching platform if there’s no one there to talk to.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by bikezen »

buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #33
arcologies1985 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can't feasibly do this in the US since many people don't have drivers licenses or passports.

Yeah that’s not true. It’s a lie. And we all know why it’s a lie. Adults in the US with ID is 99%

*Citation needed

> Nearly 21 million voting-age U.S. citizens do not have a current (non-expired) driver’s license. Just under 9%, or 20.76 million people, who are U.S. citizens aged 18 or older do not have a non-expired driver’s license. Another 12% (28.6 million) have a non- expired license, but it does not have both their current address and current name. For these individuals, a mismatched address is the largest issue. Ninety-six percent of those with some discrepancy have a license that does not have their current address, 1.5% have their current address but not their current name, and just over 2% do not have their current address or current name on their license. Additionally, just over 1% of adult U.S. citizens do not have any form of government-issued photo identification, which amounts to nearly 2.6 million people.

From https://cdce.umd.edu/sites/cdce.umd.edu/files/pubs/Voter%20I...

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