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I talk to three people on Discord. If I have to choose between A) giving Discord my ID, B) giving Discord a fraudulent ID, or C) just chatting with them on some

I talk to three people on Discord. If I have to choose between A) giving Discord my ID, B) giving Discord a fraudulent ID, or C) just chatting with them on some other program, I'll just go with C. If I cared about Discord more I guess I'd figure out B. May get started with C ahead of time anyway.

rozab 8mo ago
What am I missing? According to this, the only difference is you get a warning popup when someone new DMs you, right? And they can't send you images flagged as porn? How does this impact you in any way?
- MiddleEndian 8mo ago
  I'm generally opposed to services unnecessarily wanting IDs, content filtering for direct messages from my contacts, unwanted popups (it's already annoying when my friends send me a link to a site I haven't visited from discord before and it "warns" me and you cannot disable this entirely useless popups), and things generally becoming worse. A lot of these things are normalized already, but requiring IDs is not and I don't want to see it become normalized. Ultimately, they are free to do what they like (or perhaps being unnecessarily pressured by various govts) and I am free to leave the service.
  - andrewflnr 8mo ago
    They're saying there's a very good chance that, in your use case, you still won't be asked to provide ID.
    - dave7 8mo ago
      This is correct. I'm a UK Discord user, so I've been subject to these requirements for ~6 months now. It's basically nothing - I'm in near 50 "servers", of them all I only really can think of one channel in one of them that is flagged "nsfw" and thus blocked to me as I never ID'd myself. If you don't use Discord as a source of "nsfw" content you can comfortably ignore these requirements. I do realize there are some communities that may fare a lot worse than my gaming / software dev interests, and may be falsely claimed "nsfw" just for their existence. Which yeah, that absolutely sucks.
    - MiddleEndian 8mo ago
      Whether I have to provide ID myself or not, I prefer to live in a world where when a company even announces that they plan to do facial scanning, they lose most of their customers. Hard to keep track of everything every company is doing of course, but I will try to migrate off of Discord ASAP.
      - andrewflnr 8mo ago
        I don't disagree with that, personally.
edm0nd 8mo ago
If all you use Discord for is chatting with 3 people, these changes will have zero impact on you and your daily usage. You wont ever see an ID prompt.
- MiddleEndian 8mo ago
  It will impact me since I've decided to go with plan C ahead of time. Hard to keep track of everything every company does, but I'd rather not use a service that is unnecessarily aggregating facial scans + IDs of its users.
- __loam 8mo ago
  You don't have to make excuses for corporate decisions that damage user privacy.
- IhateAI_3 8mo ago
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sipjca 8mo ago
this is hilarious, person who barely uses service says he will leave the service, what a concept

rozab 8mo ago

What am I missing? According to this, the only difference is you get a warning popup when someone new DMs you, right? And they can't send you images flagged as porn? How does this impact you in any way?

MiddleEndian 8mo ago
I'm generally opposed to services unnecessarily wanting IDs, content filtering for direct messages from my contacts, unwanted popups (it's already annoying when my friends send me a link to a site I haven't visited from discord before and it "warns" me and you cannot disable this entirely useless popups), and things generally becoming worse. A lot of these things are normalized already, but requiring IDs is not and I don't want to see it become normalized. Ultimately, they are free to do what they like (or perhaps being unnecessarily pressured by various govts) and I am free to leave the service.
- andrewflnr 8mo ago
  They're saying there's a very good chance that, in your use case, you still won't be asked to provide ID.
  - dave7 8mo ago
    This is correct. I'm a UK Discord user, so I've been subject to these requirements for ~6 months now. It's basically nothing - I'm in near 50 "servers", of them all I only really can think of one channel in one of them that is flagged "nsfw" and thus blocked to me as I never ID'd myself. If you don't use Discord as a source of "nsfw" content you can comfortably ignore these requirements. I do realize there are some communities that may fare a lot worse than my gaming / software dev interests, and may be falsely claimed "nsfw" just for their existence. Which yeah, that absolutely sucks.
  - MiddleEndian 8mo ago
    Whether I have to provide ID myself or not, I prefer to live in a world where when a company even announces that they plan to do facial scanning, they lose most of their customers. Hard to keep track of everything every company is doing of course, but I will try to migrate off of Discord ASAP.
    - andrewflnr 8mo ago
      I don't disagree with that, personally.

edm0nd 8mo ago

If all you use Discord for is chatting with 3 people, these changes will have zero impact on you and your daily usage. You wont ever see an ID prompt.

MiddleEndian 8mo ago
It will impact me since I've decided to go with plan C ahead of time. Hard to keep track of everything every company does, but I'd rather not use a service that is unnecessarily aggregating facial scans + IDs of its users.
__loam 8mo ago
You don't have to make excuses for corporate decisions that damage user privacy.
IhateAI_3 8mo ago
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sipjca 8mo ago

this is hilarious, person who barely uses service says he will leave the service, what a concept