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until your gov decides that websites need to age-check everyone with the equivalent of showing some ID...
by arccy 10mo ago
until your gov decides that websites need to age-check everyone with the equivalent of showing some ID...
- mindslight 10mo agoOr corpos decide the time is ripe to force users to do it, so they can better optimize their surveillance targeting. Google has been nagging me with a periodic Android popup for like a decade to "add my birthday to help them comply with the law". Eventually that tack of borderline misleading will turn into an outright demand.
- mariusor 10mo agoIn the end we all are allowed to just not use a product... aren't we? Vote with your wallet is still possible.
- mindslight 10mo agoNo? A few percent of people dissenting doesn't move the needle for the company analysts, all the "competitors" tend to move in lock step since their managements are all tuned into the same memestream, and using such systems has steadily become more de facto mandatory for many previously-unrelated tasks.
- mariusor 10mo agoI don't want to "move the needle", I just want to not support scummy companies. It sounded like you did too, but my mistake.
- mindslight 10mo agoI don't know what you mean? My first point was just about how our individual behavior is not going to affect companies' decisions. The subsequent points were about how it's becoming increasingly harder to avoid supporting any scummy companies. And the more this behavior is normalized, the easier it is for governments to make it illegal for any site to not demand users' government-registered identities.
- mariusor 10mo agoFrom my perspective we can talk about that when it actually happens. No need to slide on that slippery slope just yet, or at least, not in my neighbourhood...