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Badalich also says after the October data breach, Discord “immediately stopped doing any sort of age verification flows with that vendor” and is now using a different third-party vendor.
Oh thanks, it's fixed
The ID is immediately deleted. We do not keep any information around like your name, the city that you live in, if you used a birth certificate or something else, any of that information.
Suure
Oh yeah it’s totally deleted from that one server! Of course all information is kept for “quality and training purposes” and to hand over to palantir and whoever is willing to pay.
Now what sort of unethical corporate greed machine would do that?
. . . All of them?
Oh. Oh dear.
"we use industry standard privacy practices"
e.g. your privacy is our payday.
I usually just roll my eyes when I see that corpospeak, but now I'm going to translate it as "payday." Thanks!
Just like they deleted it from the last provider
If this was true, then they would have no problem with agreeing to paying us $50 mil each in the event of a data breach, since it could never happen, right?
None of the companies pulling this shit are offering a good enough product to be worth it.
The day an app/service (be it Discord or anything else) asks me to upload my ID, is the day my account gets deleted.
Time for me to review Revolt Chat again to see what has updated.
Wow, apparently they change their name entirely. I am way behind
It's Stoat now! https://stoat.chat/
I recently joined! It's very close to Discord.
Tired of so many discussions being locked away in Discord, so hopefully they ramp this up and require identification to do anything so everyone will move to a more open platform.
Discord and github are the two platforms barely anyone dares to speak about. The Foss community barely mentions the usage of such platforms, despite nearly all of projects use discord as the support line.
It is really such a shame, since those projects make a significant contribution to open source software in one area. but just shits itself in the other.
At least public githubs aren't difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.
Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.
Discord leaked my email. How do I know it was Discord? Because that email address was specifically for Discord. Anyways, now that email is full of spam. Anyways anyways, no way I am letting them leak my face
Time to use generative AI to make a fake picture... Might as well pollute their database if they make these demands.
I been hearing the Dr.Breen model in Gmod is the gold standard because you can pose the face.
The German ~~passport~~ ID card (and I'm sure many others) has a NFC chip in it and you can use it with an open source app to securely prove your identity online. In cases like this, the only information pulled from your ID would be "over 18" or "not over 18".
It's one of the few things my government did right in the digital space. And yet almost nobody in the private sector uses this. I'm tired of being asked to upload a photo of my ID for age verification.
Of course they don't use it. They want your data, not just your age. As long as the government does not make using ID this way for age verification mandatory*, companies will continue to use processes that give them the most data that they can sell.
*: As in not making verification mandatory but if a company wants to do it they must to it this way
To quote general Grevious:
“Time to abandon ship”
There’s plenty of other options out there. Discord has been enshitifying for a while now, so I don’t mind dropping it
ill take my leave asap then, 10 years has been a pretty good sample of what capitalism does to a platform
Do they seriously expect discord moderators' faces to fit into a picture not taken from like 15m?
Yeah.... No how about we just stop using Discord and move to something more decentralized like Matrix
Ok, rare to see such an explicit kind of Great Filter / Idiot Test play out at scale, but here we go!
Anybody who is still using Discord after it requires you to personally directly link your drivers liscense or w/e to it, well, they're fine with every government apparatus of any kind knowing everything they say and do on Discord.
Good luck to those glorious morons, truly, good luck.
You are going to need it.
Super, duper hope you're not queer or trans or neurodivergent.
... you... think the 23 concentration camps currently being built by ICE / FEMA are ... only for migrants?
Brown people?
Well you trust the current fascist regime a lot more than I do.
Ok. Well I will delete my account then.
This kind of enshittification is intolerable. The reason this exists is solely to tie your online behaviour to your real life identity.
“They” want to control people’s conversations in the digital third spaces. And to find ways to punish you for the thoughts they disapprove of. Discord is happy to sell that data to whomever is buying it.
Oh well. More fediverse, please!
Discord is not needed. Quit. Kill it. Watch them BEG to get us back, then say no.
Fucking seriously? One of the last places I still have a fucking community and now I'm going to get kicked from it cause corporate assholes can't learn to respect fucking privacy?
I trust the scammers who call me daily with my ID more than a Discord third party vendor. They just wanted a google play card. Discord wants personal info. This age of censorship is terrible. If it was about about protecting kids just get parents to use modern parental block controls.
Some friends invited me to play Minecraft and talk through this shit app called Discord, in the first time I don't like it, but now is definitely not an option. Which others apps do you recommend for this?
The problem is not the lack of alternatives but the lack of users using the alternatives
The day where platforms enshittify so bad they implode can't come soon enough
