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Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by varun_ch »

dark-star wrote: post #43
0x1ch wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Unfortunately I wouldn’t be so sure that there aren’t any 7 year old Discord users

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by Gigachad »

jsheard wrote: post #7
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.

They already support ID checks as an alternative to face scanning, if the latter proves to be untenable then it's literally a case of flipping a switch to mandate ID instead.

The long term solution would have to be some kind of integration with a government platform where the platform doesn’t see your ID and the government doesn’t see what you are signing up for.

I don’t this will happen in the US but I can see it in more privacy responding countries.

Apple and Google may also add some kind of “child flag” parents can enable which tells websites and apps this user is a child and all age checks should immediately fail.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by esseph »

beambot wrote: post #71
jsheard wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They already support ID checks as an alternative to face scanning, if the latter proves to be untenable then it's literally a case of flipping a switch to mandate ID instead.

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) credentials used by US government & military via NFC already work on web browsers. States should just move to digital IDs stored on smartphones, with chain of trust up through the secure element...

> Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) credentials used by US government & military via NFC already work on web browsers. States should just move to digital IDs stored on smartphones, with chain of trust up through the secure element...

I think you're... missing the point of the pushback. People DO NOT WANT to be identified online, for fear for different types of persecution.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by g947o »

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 mean, it's called a social network

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by ddtaylor »

Gigachad wrote: post #75
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?

Why do middle aged people still use Facebook marketplace rather than another platform? Because even if you put in the effort to use something different, you’ll be the only one there. The effort to coordinate everyone to move at the same time is bordering on impossible.

First mover advantage with network effects

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by chatmasta »

brian-armstrong wrote: post #15
consumer451 wrote: post #12

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There is a way to do this, where nearly everyone is fine.[0] However, the orgs don’t get to capture verified adult user identity to pad the value of their user data profiles… [0] https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-gl...

It seems unlikely that "is user adult" is not already easily modeled by any of these companies to within a very high degree of confidence. Even 15 or 20 years ago Google search could bracket your age pretty effectively. It doesn't seem like this adds metadata that wasn't already there.

Google prompts me to verify my age on my account I created in 2004. They’re not trying too hard.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by poly2it »

Retr0id wrote: post #72
dark-star wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

My account is almost a decade old and discord is still asking me to complete age verification.

Are they rolling this out in stages? I haven't been asked to prove the age of my account.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by gnarbarian »

apeters wrote: post #66
gnarbarian wrote: post #37

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you counter this by using an id verified service like login.gov or okta verify. That's the endgame and what the EU really wants. No poasting unless they can arrest you for inconvenient memes.

Wow. The EU.

yes, avoiding EU fines and ensuring availability there is most likely the motivating factor behind the change.
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