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Discord walks back age verification fears for most users (www.techbuzz.ai)
submitted 22 hours 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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[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 26 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Does Discord even have an community relations department, because they suck. Seriously what a stupid decision to just announce age verification and then provide no additional details or context.

This ~~clarification~~ pathetic attempt at backpedalling, isn't much better either, they've still provided essentially no information on exactly what the process is going to be, and exactly how it is going to work. I also do not like the fact that they're basically just giving up on any attempts to implement this themselves, and are going with third party solutions. We all know that "third party solutions" means the lowest bidder, so this will be implemented poorly with no operational security, and absolutely will result in a data breach.

I created my account at least 15 years ago so if they require age verification from me they're idiots.

[โ€“] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 hours ago

Lmaoooo

Have you SEEN their UI? You know how over the past ten years we've been like "aaaaanny day now they'll fix it so it isn't awful..." And they didn't. And instead, we just sorta... got used to it?

Pffft.. like they listen to anything anybody else says. Community relations dept. Ha!