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It does appear to work. I received a message from Discord saying "We determined you're in the adult group. <learn more>" narrator> And that's when he discovers
by scarygliders 9mo ago
It does appear to work. I received a message from Discord saying "We determined you're in the adult group. <learn more>"
narrator> And that's when he discovers his account has now been hacked...
;)
- 0x1ch 9mo agoWorked for me as well. Hopefully my account of 11+ years isn't penalized because of this. Not like it matters because I'll quit anyways if forced to send my face or ID.
- dark-star 9mo agoYou probably won't even have to validate then. I guess they can safely assume that you didn't create your account when you were 7 years or younger. They said they expect 80% of users or so to be auto-verified by some other means (account age, typing statistics, whatever)
- Retr0id 9mo agoMy account is almost a decade old and discord is still asking me to complete age verification.
- poly2it 9mo agoAre they rolling this out in stages? I haven't been asked to prove the age of my account.
- Retr0id 9mo agoI'm in the UK (where the law allows them to use heuristics).
- rationalist 9mo agoSo VPN to the UK?
- Retr0id 9mo agoWhat?
- rationalist 9mo agoLots of websites assume you are located in the country where your IP address is, and thus apply the rules for that country. So perhaps if someone wanted to use heuristics instead of uploading an ID, they could pretend to be in the UK by using a VPN.
- Retr0id 9mo agoLegislatively, the UK is among the stricter regimes wrt online age verification. It's a place you want to be VPNing out of. Discord is apparently rolling this out worldwide out of their own free will, not due to legislative pressures.
- FMecha 9mo ago>not due to legislative pressures It's a pre-emptive move against any (potential) legislative pressures.
- dark-star 9mo agomaybe it's different per country shrug
- varun_ch 9mo agoUnfortunately I wouldn’t be so sure that there aren’t any 7 year old Discord users
- LadyCailin 9mo ago7 year olds with a credit card?
- dark-star 9mo agoto be fair, you don't need a credit card to create a Discord account. And yes, I don't think there are ZERO seven-year-olds on Discord. I just think the number is pretty dang small
- 0x1ch 9mo agoWonderful. Hopefully I'm not retroactively banned for things I said when I was fourteen on servers long gone.
- kattagarian 9mo agoi changed the password later just to be sure.
- hypercube33 9mo agoThis isn't as fun as using the g-man from half life to verify