this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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[–] artyom@piefed.social 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lip service

For 90%+ of users, nothing changes. Most users never access age-restricted content or change their default safety settings. For those who do, we have an internal system that works to accurately determine your age.

"accurately" my ass.

We know many of you believe the right answer is not to do this at all. We hear you.

You obviously don't.

the security incident last year involving our third-party customer service provider only adds to that skepticism. To be clear, we do not use that vendor for age assurance. In fact, we no longer work with them at all, and we've taken the lessons from that incident seriously.

You obviously haven't.

We heard you, and we want to get this right. So here's what's happening: We’re delaying our global rollout to the second half of 2026.

We’re listening.

LOL you aren't.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm without question one of the 90% and I never thought they were going to require it for everyone. But I don't like the idea that an algorithm is constantly writing a dossier about me to determine my "age" because I wasn't fucking born yesterday.

Open source your shit and make it auditable or I'm not fucking using it anymore.

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

The enshitification will continue until morale improves.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sounds promising but still not convincing.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't read it nor do I care too. nothing from companies/corporations sounds promising anymore. it's all lies. I have zero reason to trust companies since they continuously keep lighting the bridge on fire then apologize for lighting it on fire to then light another fire next to it.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago

I did, you can tell it’s frightened

[–] RedWedding@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago

It read like utter marketing nonsense

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 9 points 3 days ago

We hear you

Yeah I bet you do.