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    Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly

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    2. Top_Result_1550 on

      Discord tracking little kids for the trump kid raping party was never going to go well. Everyone sees through it.

    3. EmbarrassedHelp on

      Discord is lying to people about laws applying globally. They should have kept it to only the regions that require it, rather than waging a global war on privacy.

    4. RiptideEberron on

      But how are they going to legally push gambling ads to adults if they don’t know who’s an adult?

      Gotta protect the children from our self-inflicted gambling ads… /s

    5. QuantumWarrior on

      It’s almost like enforcing age verification on the internet is a half-baked workaround that should never be accepted.

    9. FutureSuccess2796 on

      The amount of art pieces I’ve seen where people are wiping that smirk off the face of Wumpus is immaculate!

    11. VaporousMote on

      Many people still seem not to understand that this isn’t about verifying your age, it’s about the privacy implications of age verification and this providing the precedent to shoehorn in a bunch of other privacy-destroying stuff.

      Just because it correctly marks you as “Adult” does not solve any of those problems.

    12. Gullible_Method_3780 on

      Discord went into government crosshairs when the people of Nepal used it to liberate themselves from tyranny. Change my mind.

    13. RoyalWe666 on

      I deleted my account months ago when it was announced, but I don’t mainly blame Discord. They’re trying to get ahead of this global anti-privacy conspiracy, and yes it clearly is a conspiracy with how quickly it’s moving across the world.

      The alternative, to do the minimum needed on a regional basis, would be very fiddly and subject to change on a monthly basis because that’s just how fast this stuff is moving now. Every few weeks some new country is announcing a “social media ban” or further restrictions. A system where most users never have to verify based on age estimation is probably just the least damaging to Discord, and it’s probably going to get worse as new laws demand everyone be restricted by default until ID is uploaded.

    15. Dominick_PK on

      You can self host your own team speak 6 server if all you do is need a place to chat with a close nit group of friends (all I do) with better quality chats, video quality settings not blocked behind a paywall, more features, and no payment necessary.

    16. yellowsapphire88 on

      I’m sorry, hang on… HAHAHAHAHA

      It was never going to go anything *other* than terribly, let’s be absolutely honest.

    17. Ok-Horror-4253 on

      unsure why, but i was grouped into the “teen” category. maybe i don’t use discord enough for adult content? i do not care as i’m not going to verify anyway.

    18. Cheetawolf on

      Discord: Please let us scan your face and ID, it stays entirely on your DEVICE WE PROMIIIIIIIISE

      Also Discord: *Leaks tens of thousands of scanned ID’s that were stored on their servers and being sold to put flat-out gambling ads into the app and Windows software*

      I already uninstalled Discord on my phone because of the gambling ads, and I’m looking for a self-hosted alternative to use on Windows.

      Discord’s days are numbered and it feels so good.

    19. vgsa on

      Notably, as per the article, “badly” in the sense that they’re getting angry messages on X, not “badly” in the sense that they are bleeding users. An important distinction.

    26. ItsRainbow on

      Age verification is abhorrent, but as far as existing users are concerned, I don’t think the actual attempt is going poorly. Account age being considered this time around is a major step up. No one I know has had to submit an ID.

    27. Foostini on

      Drawing a corporate mascot being horribly tortured is based actually and you should continue to do it for every corporation

    28. ScienceForge319 on

      Discord had something good and have been dedicated to driving users from their platform.

      Stop it. Just make your audio calls work and keep racists and pedophiles off. Every other move has been awful.

    29. WingDairu on

      This article *really* glosses over the reaction online. “Tortured and beaten up” does ***not*** cover what they’re doing to Wumpus on Twitter; it’s been an art trend going on the past three or four days to draw Discord’s mascot in literally *every single horrible method of torture and execution ever devised.* The Bronze Bull, the guillotine, the Blood Eagle, the Iron Maiden, drawn-and-quartered, several torturous methods involving rats, a good selection of fictional deaths, classic gore memes, and even some methods that are so awful I’m not even gonna describe them. People are drawing styles of torment that I have never heard of or seen depicted before.

      People are *REALLY* upset this time.

    31. Wrightero on

      Not only they’re gonna sell your personal data. They’re also gonna get hacked and leak it all over aswell.

    32. Mirabeaux1789 on

      > Discord estimates a user’s age based on several factors, including how old the account is, what communities and servers they are a part of, and what games are connected to the account.

      The problem is that preteens and teenagers play the same games adults do by and large.

    34. stormdelta on

      > “When you launch an extremely popular age assurance update that everyone on Discord was really looking forward to and it has bugs,” posted Discord.

      Forget merely tone-deaf, this feels like they’re trying to outright gaslight people. Many people have started dreading software updates to important systems now because of how often tech companies are making things worse, discord included.

      I’ve started seeing more and more phrasing like this in press releases or even paid articles to the point it’s kind of disturbing. Spin and marketing is one thing, openly lying about your own audience’s state of mind is something else entirely.

    35. wowlock_taylan on

      Actually they don’t HAVE to because those ‘laws’ didn’t pass yet outside of UK etc.

      They just wanted to do it.

    36. AliceLunar on

      Forcing age verification on the whole internet without trying literally anything else is so blatantly not about the kids and purely to gain control, and with probably everyone already being a victim of their personal data leaking by some shit company who got a slap on the wrist for it, identity fraud is going to be an ever increasing issue whilst kids will continue to bypass things anyways.