Reminder to everyone that Discord is pushing out ID Verification any day now, and is already selling all the data and discussions on its platform to fascist surveillance company Palantir, most well known for recent AI-Powered Civillian tracking system "Flock Cams", owned and operated by Billionaire Peter Theil who helped reelect Donald Trump.

That's why I moved to Stoat and at some point in the future plan to self-host.

Ok.

Ah yes. Because I made my 10 year old discord account when I was 5. You got me guys.

Once had a scammer tryna catfish me in a similar way.

Some time into conversation other person randomly mentions "by the way, I do webcams, you can see here [website]... and yeah, it will ask for credit card data - but it's just to keep kiddies out". 🌝

I would rather jack off with my mind and meet people IRL if this idiocy continues.

At some point there's an endpoint to enshitification, at which people say FU I am going to live in the forest now. I am pretty close.

@Gonzako Shameless plug, I made an extension to try and bypass this on some sites! Free and open source too.

https://github.com/helloyanis/age-verification-bypass

Now when we apply to jobs in the US, we have to agree to a privacy policy that says we agree to phone spam when they share our data to third parties.

I hate everything about this timeline.

I can't wait to read the explosion of breathless media reports and "expert" commentary discussing the sudden spate of compromised ID systems and the subsequent finger pointing between politicians blaming each other for this entirely foreseeable outcome while the professionals who kept raising concerns have their uncredited "I told you so" moment.

I would be less concerned (still not buying it, but...) if pedophiles we already know about were prosecuted. How about putting them in jail before looking for more ways to protect children? What about the rest of Epsteins pedo ring? Are we supposed to think that was just the work of two people?

I'm all for protecting children, but we could do so much more even without sacrificing privacy.

I was so enraged when I went to go log into the retirement system website (state employee) and I had to sign up for fucking id.me to log in. Ridiculous bullshit. WHY? Who the fuck is going to log on and look at my retirement statement? Not like I can actually retire any time soon with no health insurance fuckers

I have to upload my passport page to get my autism assessment and I still haven't done it and I don't want to, but I've been trying to get this assessment on and off for years :(

I can't wait for the day the whole wide world holds a class action suit to get some of their "ID" money back. "A" sells to "B" sells to "C"...where is my cut?

I don't want to protect my children. CHECKMATE TECHBROS!!!!!!

I just saw this cover image in the Testing Yet Another App for Lemmy community. What a coincidence—I found it pretty funny when I first saw it, and now I’ve run into it again here, lol.