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Sadly out of reach for small projects. For example if you had a site with 100k users, you'd barely cover server costs with Ad Sense. $150k to check all of them?
by varispeed 5y ago
Sadly out of reach for small projects. For example if you had a site with 100k users, you'd barely cover server costs with Ad Sense. $150k to check all of them? Would never happen :/ Maybe if they could pay for verification themselves?
- jhugo 5y agoIn many cases you don’t need to verify the identity of every user. You can use some signal to determine when you need ID, or require it for accessing certain products/features.
- spoonjim 5y agoYou don’t need to verify a user’s real identity to serve them AdSense.
- varispeed 5y agoThey can post AdSense violating image and report the URL to get the page demonetised. Users of similar project done that many times.
- whimsicalism 5y agoIf you're not offering a service for $, why do you need to verify identity? What is the usecase? This strikes me as classic HN bikeshedding.
- varispeed 5y agoSpam and other malicious behaviour. It's time consuming for mods to block spammers. Instagram also don't charge users and yet they verify identity.
- arcturus17 5y agoInstagram may be verifying identity now (I didn't know... letting FB scan my id would be one of the last things I would want), but I'm pretty sure they reached a massive scale without such a measure.
- michaelt 5y agoStripe's website shows users scanning their government ID documents and taking selfies. Using that as a means to block spammers would be.... unusual.