YarrMatey

Your current logic is since the government knows your personal information, everyone should then share this information with every company or person that asks for it. I am an admin on lemmy, a social media site that would be required in some countries to do digital ID verification. You're saying that people should trust me with their personal info to verify their age or that they are human and allow them to continue using lemmy. I am a random person, just like Persona and the other random companies that do age verification. Persona has already had a leak btw. Do you trust Discord? You shouldn't since 70,000 IDs were leaked. Or how about IDMerit who exposed 1 billion records of PII?

If you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn't be afraid of me asking for your information I requested so that you can continue browsing lemmy uninterrupted. Do you see why your logic makes 0 sense? The government is not doing the age verification for reddit*, it is a random person like me doing it. You do have something to hide, because you refused to send me your personal info, you refuse to doxx yourself. And you should refuse, it is sane to refuse, that is why we all refuse digital ID verification. Please read the other comments as well, don't blindly accept the propaganda of the oppressors. I see your account is new, good luck learning new viewpoints.

*I don't trust the government to do the ID verification either to be clear, that is survellaince from a police state, the state is inherently violent. We have seen governments like the USian DOGE fumble basic shit during their survellaince.

Apple "lets" you make a dev account to install an app (side load) from something like iloader and sidestore/altstore, but you are limited to installing a handful of apps and each app only works for 7 days after which you have to redo the whole process. Side loading on apple is a PITA. I recently tried helping do this and hate the entire process, it should be more like android. Not that android is perfect, because I personally believe you should be able to install any app or OS on any device.

Your government knows your ID, address, date of birth, bank information, credit cards, and such, I'm sure you wouldn't mind giving me all of this information? I need your personal information to "verify" you are you and then link your real identity to all of your account's activity for surveillance and sell that info for ads. I will protect your personal info very poorly so your info gets dumped on the internet for all to browse. /s

There's a million reasons why someone wants their info to stay more private. I'm an admin on lemmy, why the fuck should anyone give me their personal info?! Please web search about online privacy and why things like "nothing to hide" is such an ignorant take.

There is a discord server for just that purpose for .world.

Thanks, these will be my new recommendations to people.

Same here, we're left with AirVPN at that point.

Most of these cases happen because of working memory problems, not because the parent is self-obsessed and negligent. Things like having a change in a routine can lead to a parent forgetting their child was still in the car. It is a tragedy, this parent is most likely devastated because their loved one is dead due to their memory failing. Parents get sleep deprived, they need more support. We don't need to point fingers and mock them.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/anyone-could-forget-kids-in-hot-car-forgotten-baby-syndrome-a3901940661/

Diamond says the problem involves two parts of a person’s working memory: prospective and semantic. Prospective memory helps us remember to do something in the future, while semantic memory allows drivers to make the trip from work to home on autopilot, where they arrive without remembering clear details of how they got there.

Prospective and semantic memories work together to help us make changes to our routines; these changes can include things such as “drop off the baby at day care” or “stop for groceries on the way home.” When our working memory fails, such as when we’re distracted or stressed, there can be catastrophic implications, Diamond says. He gave examples of situations where critical safety steps were overlooked, such as a surgeon leaving tools in a patient, a pilot not setting the wing flaps for landing, and caregivers forgetting that there’s a baby in the car.

You can't create a new gmail account without the same crap. It started in gmail first iirc but they announced in April of this year that they wanted recaptcha to be like this too. Use in recaptcha started being reported around May of this year. I can't do it on my ungoogled phone and I don't plan on regoogling. Supposedly audio recaptcha still works.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/google-recaptcha-update/

I did skip some details, I should have also added that proton uses phone numbers to verify you are not a bot when you attempt to be anonymous. It is possible to use a burner email from disroot (or non-proton) but that was such a headache I never want to attempt again since even tuta locked my account. I used disroot because the normal burner email I use wasn't getting their code. They lock your account immediately if you use Tor or ironically their own vpn service when you sign up. You can use burner codes like smspool or juicysms at least. You can't use crypto as your first payment method either (if that's important to you). You should also never enter an actual recovery email because that will be handed over in a raid.

Which is why I recommend most people use Mullvad instead of this headache and offer AirVPN as a different alternative if you must torrent with port forwarding. My usage of proton has turned me anti-proton lmao. Their linux support kinda sucks too. If I had to do it again, I would have avoided proton's vpn.

Proton requiring you to doxx yourself via phone numbers and email addresses is such crap. Can't sign up via Tor either, they limit crypto they accept and when. They log your payment methods, and just suck so bad compared to Mullvad. I know expecting privacy for email is a non-starter, but they pretend like their email is private when there is so much logging they do there alone.

Thanks for the heads-up with AirVPN, I was told they had good customer support but ¯\(ツ)/¯ I would not know.

Mullvad gives you a random number for your account and does not ask for anything else. You can pay via cash or other methods for better privacy. Mullvad has no logs to give and have been raided before proving this. Mullvad is based in Sweden with good vpn laws. I am very pro-Mullvad but when they removed port forwarding, I switched away (and they also gave partial refunds when they removed port forwarding).

I don't like the idea of being stuck in Proton's ecosystem since it has good deals on its suite but at least they have good vpn laws (Swiss). They also push credit instead of full refunds. The downside to AirVPN (who I have not fully tried yet) is they are based in Italy (but no longer serve Italian customers due to the increase of bs in Italy).

Edit: Mullvad are assholes funding far right shit. Proton are assholes. But there is still AirVPN, IVPN, and crpytostorm.