“Won’t somebody think of the kids?!” while they admit to using the data to squeeze more money from ads (translated making your experience better). They don’t deserve the communities they have anymore.
Soon any company you interact with will have enough information to ruin your life because there’s always a way for some employee to get the data even of you really do what you promise and don’t save anything.
As GLaDOS said - it’s been fun, don’t come back.
I love “all photos are encrypted so your information remains private”. Encrypted to whom? Private from whom? I don’t want you to have it! I’m more worried about you then the guy at the coffee shop. He can already see my face!
You’re going to have a hard time judging my age by a photo you can’t decrypt, so don’t pull that shit with me.
Yah… My old (abandoned) reddit account is quite old, if you cant prove im not a child by the account being two decades old, thats a you problem. Find me in 2029 and we can talk, but until then, were going no contact.
[Updates DNS and router block list]
Is reddit dead yet?
BTW, OP, unlike reddit, on lemmy you can edit your post titles :P
Surely some mathematician knows some magic cryptography to do age checks with zero trust and no data shared?
verification failed - our employee will arrive shortly to tug you by the dick
“Patiently waiting”
They forgot option 3: uninstall the app
They’re counting on the vast majority of their user base being driven by FOMO.
I fear that those of us who are willing to cut ties and go elsewhere are a very small minority.
Fuck FOMO. I’m LOMO. The Love Of Missing Out.
Username checks out.
Same
Don’t worry, your data will remain private. We’ll have it, and we’ll sell it, of course, but that’s our right. Also, we might be hacked when some bad guy guesses our Pa$$worD, or we make an oopsie and leave the entire server open and unencrypted. But, other than that, your driver’s license is safe with us.
You forgot “It’ll be private because we’ll ‘anonymize’ it before we sell it”
Besides the recommendation to drop sites that demand privacy-breaching validations, seeking the legal venues is important too, else people will just lose ground as they try to avoid the issue.
“Let’s not”
Persona and other third‑party age verification providers have been cited in broader debates about the privacy and security implications of online age checks. News coverage of Reddit’s UK rollout focused on short photo retention windows and the separation of user account data from verification data, while also highlighting civil liberties concerns about expanding age restrictions online. Founders Fund’s investment in Persona has been scrutinized in broader discussions of government surveillance and identity verification technologies due to its ties to Peter Thiel, the founder of data-analytics company Palantir. Song has denied operational relationships between Persona and Palantir or U.S. government agencies.
In February 2026, a security researcher discovered publicly-exposed code on an instance of Persona’s verification system used by the U.S. government’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which revealed information about the company’s verification pipeline. The discovery led to further evaluations of Persona’s operations; the messaging service Discord stated that it would end its trial use of Persona for age verification in certain territories, and evaluate alternative providers and methods.
I wonder if there would be a market for life-like heads on… like… a ventriloquist dummy type of thing…. And I very much mean for security bypassing get your filthy mind out of there.
Does anyone still male fake ids? Asking for a friend.
Wondering if there’s a AI tool that can make real looking images of various ids?
I read somewhere that some kids used an AI generated image to fool the age verification. It sounded like they just printed it out and took a selfie.
I’ve been thinking a printable Dr. Breen mask might work. It just needs to be something good to fool the algorithm when you tape it too your face.
This site might help
Many of these services won’t accept a static image, which is all that site provides.
What about wearing life like masks? You can be tom cruise.
Yep, persona verification asks you to move your head up/down/left/right on a live selfie feed.
Ugh, fuck that
I’ve seen some of the tools in the UK are fooled by AI generated pictures. Kind of funny to see if they end up in a database and shit starts getting regurgitated like the human centipede.
I was just thinking that, since it’s easy to generate a video long enough to satisfy their requirements. That’s probably what I’d do if any of my services required this (but they don’t, yet).
Yeah my state just started this now. What the fuck. I dont remember seeing a vote on this shit.
