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Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live (uk.pcmag.com)
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This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.

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[–] 1 point 21 hours ago (1 child)

Wgen i heard facebook demands your phone number, i was like: oh wow, no one is gonna use facebook anymore. No one seemed to care and gace their phone number. Abd that's to use fucking facebook.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago

    Phone number is not as intrusive as an ID - at least to me. People are used to handing out their telephone number to whichever webshop they navigate to to buy whatever gadget they believe to need. That's quite a step further from requiring to whip out your phone to scane your ID in order to even access reddit, youtube, tiktok, or xitter.

    But I understand your cynicism. There are privacy advocates who ask their users to join a Discord group in order to talk about the latest privacy topics. We have opensource devs loudly and proudly supporting big tech - some even demand you buy big tech hardware to use their opensource software.

    Hope dies last though.

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