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Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!

I guess soon there will be only the more intrusive/trackable options like credit card or bank details.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't think credit cards are more intrusive than forced selfies, to the contrary.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn't exactly anyone's idea of a utopia.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Then come the hacks and abuses (executives and politicians not excluded) and we are back to square one, except that everybody and the innocents lost something while the cybercrime syndicates had a field day.

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