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and fuck the UK goverment
It is fucking mental that an industry plagued by data harvesting is being asked to harvest more data.
Anyway, I'm now in Belgium according to my VPN.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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If any service requires me to send a photo of myself to use it, I ain't using it.
EDIT: lol wut, Facebook and YouTube want photo ID now?? I must be old enough to have missed out. My comment stands though, if I wasn't already a member on either of those I guess I wouldn't become one!
It's a UK law, you either comply or get banned. Obviously everybody now has a VPN subscription.
Italy made VPNs practically illegal. The UK might soon follow. And surfing the web with a VPN is a painful torrent of capchas. And email addresses you can get without revealing your phone number to identify yourself are becoming sparse too.
If you'd want to actually address the issue (insofar unsupervised teenagers watching porn is an issue) you'd need something like a U2F security key that can be used as anonymous age verification and be bought anonymously in a physical shop for cash, just by showing your ID to a clerk (without your details being stored). Keys being stolen or misused could then also be flagged in a public database.
I think it's better to reject these sites rather than work around it. Especially for major platforms. Make it hurt financially.
Many have done that for decades, but the tend remains that the internet is getting less and less free.
My VPN for about 7-8 years is run by Italian hacktivists (airvpn, it's a nonprofit, they're good people), I haven't heard about this ban. Perhaps it only applies to Italian citizens using VPNs, not to Italians running VPNs. Wait, that doesn't make sense... I'll check out their newsfeed.
Facebook does that,
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VPN, friend
Unfortunately they require "proof of liveness", you have to open your mouth or tilt your head or whatever. There are ways around it but I too have nuked my Reddit account and returned to Lemmy today.
Gross
I worked for an early AI project for [large tech giant]. While there, Alexis Ohanian came into the office and talked to my boss about using reddit's content (your posts and probably private correspondence, too, we got it from every other social network) as corpora for the AI/bot, it wasn't quite "training data" yet, it was early still in the game, but most likely it has become such.
So yeah, add that to reasons to hate reddit. I have never understood the appeal of what is essentially a for-profit USENET/BBS system, except that you can decorate yourself with flare or whatever it's called. Why'd people start using it? Why do we give away our collectively-owned technology to these dipshits?
People don't know how to use Usenet.
Discord is the same now. Wish more communities used something else
Age verification is insane in it's entirety and no payment processor, corpo, government, or think-tank has any right to enforce their puritanical views on sex and Orwellian techno-fascist policies on everyone.
Yeah I hate this. Glad I’m not using it much anymore anyway but damnnnn. I’m convinced they’re rolling this out under the guise of child safety but with the profit motive of data harvesting for their donors
Basically what FB does, and you already know they use it to sell your data and train their AI
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What I don't understand is that there are ways to prevent kids from looking at porn that don't rely on crazy shit like this, even if they do involve some government action. Having to send a picture of your face to a porn provider to view porn is the dumbest possible way to fix this. I suspect the real reason for all of this is people want to effectively ban porn altogether and dumb fucks are letting them.
Having to upload your ID anywhere is already sketchy as-is, let alone a porn site. What ever happened to the days of "never use your real name on the internet"? Computer class teachers would drill that into students' heads all the way through K-12.
When Facebook came along, I thought people were insane for posting things under their full name with their photo attached to it. I thought MySpace was asking for too much personal info as-is! Fast forward ~20 years, and not only are you expected to provide your real identity on several websites, some American states even require it now!
Honestly blows my mind how willingly we gave up our online anonymity without even the slightest bit of pushback. We all just accept it as normal now.
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people will not let this become the norm (aka persona hq bombings, im predicting that)
They will. People tolerate shitloads. They doubly tolerate it if you tell them to think of the children and point out the only reason they could possibly be offended by this is if they were some kind of pedophile.
If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear. Now submit to increasing orwellian surveillance.
just use one of the libreddits like safereddit.com or something, never go to actual reddit.
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In this case I blame the UK government
I'm not sure what you all are doing
I blame all the people with "purity" kinks who took it so far they actually created movements and entire societies based around denying the most natural and harmless feelings we have as a species.
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