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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
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[โ€“] Zagorath@quokk.au 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That feels kinda gross and exploitative. Because it's not like alcohol. This is something I very well could do myself, but refuse to do on principle, because I don't want to hand over personal data like that. Paying someone else to hand over their data feels gross.

[โ€“] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 14 hours ago

Fair. Two wrongs don't make a right. (And to be honest? If it were me, I'd actually just drop out of those channels. I'm used to venues on the Internet being easy-come-easy-go.)