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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale (arstechnica.com)
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[+] -13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

You can protect the identity and all other info of the person than if they're over 18 or not. I think that's a lot better than the other ways sites are now using.

Unless you think it of just as bad because a site knowing if you're 18+ is a violation of privacy, so might as well give them everything haha

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

    Your arguing for the elimination of privacy as a solution to privacy.

    You are naive if you think this is anything other than a demand from advertisers to ensure it is human being advertised to and not a bot.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    I don't think you understand the situation. They're already doing the id verification. They're not going to stop with that. I'd much prefer telling a site I'm 18+ than having to send in photos of my id to every random website out there. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    They are not going to stop it with people like you rolling over. Pathetic, but I guess you can pretend there is a silver lining.

    Oh wait, that silver lining is apparently you bending over, dropping trow, spreading those cheeks and shouting, "is that wide enough!"

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That's very nice but you could still have your fight about the thing while having a much better system in place. Then you get your fight against it and everyone gets less of their info out there.

    It's just a horrid system, sending pictures of your id with all your info on it, to random sites

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I have already said I won't be using any site requiring this unless there is a work around. I will not make advertisers lives easier. Fuck them.

    While I am generally inclined to pick the lesser of two evils, not in this case. So while you are not wrong about a centralized system being less problematic, I personally cannot accept it. I gave up Meta, Zombie Twitter, Reddit, etc already.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I think even without sending pics of you id to random sites you can see the benefit of a system where the only info being shared is "18+ yes/no". As many people won't be fucked over by data leaks at least

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