It’s fine. Everyone should leave Reddit anyway. It’s all ads and bots now
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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This is only going to stop old people looking at porn.
They'll just dust off the VHSes
How does that help verify age? I can take a selfie of the photo that comes with a frame for God's sake
I think the combination of two things actually makes this slightly difficult to defeat:
- The app will take a video and look for movement so a static photo won't cut it.
- They apparently flash the screen red green and blue which allows them to distinguish reflective and emissive surfaces. So you can't just point it at a video of an old person because no suitable reflective colour displays exist yet.
There are a few ways I can think of to circumvent it:
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Write an app that displays a video and simultaneously averages the colour of the front facing camera and applies that as a filter to the video, emulating a reflective display. There would be some lag but I bet it works.
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Use the Android emulator and directly read the screen colour, and use that to filter the camera input (and connect the camera to an AI video). I dunno how detectable the Android emulator is these days though. Probably the age verification apps can detect it fairly easily.
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Find a homeless person and pay them £2 to look at your phone.
It's probably quicker and easier to just use a VPN or tor.
old.reddit.com still works for me. Not that I use those subs.
Proton has free tier VPN if you are getting blocked.
Doesn’t Reddit block VPNs tho? 🤔 maybe there’s a way round that too? Idk I try not to use it too much tbh, just for porn, you know
They might be able to identify specific known large VPN providers, but as a concept, you technically can't just blanket block all "VPNs".
I wonder if this site would help, at least for a little. They mention tools to prevent the use of AI images at a later date. Or, you know, just stop using reddit and let it die. It used to be good. Used to.
Fuuuuck. Thaaat. Fuck all of that, fuck it with a rusty spiked dildo, fuck--that--.
If I send you a selfie ...can I watch?
lol. lmao, even.
A government shouldn't enforce its citizens to give their private data to private companies. Bullocks.
On the bright side, may reddit starve to death through regulation.