Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet
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#3Maybe this will finally encourage us to move away from centralized services and create truly decentralized social networks outside of our own governments reach.
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#4Dunno, unless it's like, a bank or government service, no one is getting a copy of my ID or CC just so I can view their fkin website. I guess I'll just use the web even less than I already do.
Oh yeah and despite all this BS security theatre to "protect the children", teenagers will still find ways to connect with whoever they want to and find whatever content they want online. Source: I was a 12-year-old with dialup internet and my own computer, once.
Relevant nitpick: everywhere this article says "internet" they mean "web".
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#5Probably for the best, the internet is a pretty shitty place now.
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#6I don't really like articles like this propagating it like it's just an inevitable thing that we should just accept.
How about we don't? Where's the hacker news post of a GitHub repo with easy ways to bypass age verification and multiple mirrors and such so that it can't be wiped away. It'd be a new arms race.
Parents should just be responsible for their kids.
Really sick of the enshittification epidemic.
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#7My theory: Age verification is essentially human verification. It is to stop AI. It's primarily for age of the human but more fundamentally it's about AI.
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#8Maybe this will finally encourage us to move away from centralized services and create truly decentralized social networks outside of our own governments reach.
They'll just ban those
Re: Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet
#9Probably for the best, the internet is a pretty shitty place now.
How is age verification going to make it any better?
The internet is already segregated by age groups. The kids are on tiktok and discord, snapchat. You're not talking to any of them on HN or even Reddit.
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#10Dunno, unless it's like, a bank or government service, no one is getting a copy of my ID or CC just so I can view their fkin website. I guess I'll just use the web even less than I already do. Oh yeah and despite all this BS security theatre to "protect the children", teenagers will still find ways to connect with whoever they want to and find whatever content they want online. Source: I was a 12-year-old with dialup…
> Dunno, unless it's like, a bank or government service, no one is getting a copy of my ID or CC just so I can view their fkin website.
Same, companies underestimate how interested I am in using their websites. Last month I uninstalled instagram because it asked me to pay or get more ads, every other post was already either an ad or a promotional post, I left.
The vast majority of websites are already unusable or full of low value bot content, most search engines are useless, block behind paywalls, subscriptions, &c. Hopefully this will create a new ecosystem of tools for people who want to escape