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Age Assurance: NO THANK YOU (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/54248497

Bluesky, keep your "Age Assurance", I'm definitely not going to upload my ID, biometrics or anything else to your partner "Kids Web Services"

Would never trust their parent company Epic Games (owned by Disney / Tencent...)

Luckily there are plenty of ways to bypass this: https://gist.github.com/cynion/e92af851c2d2d015c67aaa0170baaeff

Privacy Matters!

Screenshot of the Bluesky "Age Assurance" pop up The text on it reads: "Due to laws in your region, certain features on Bluesky are currently restricted until you're able to verify you're an adult. Based on your network, we think you're in United Kingdom. This estimate may be inaccurate if you're using a VPN."
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[–] 10 points 2 days ago* (6 children)

vpn's are such a pain in he ass because the free ones are usually too slow or accidentally leak my location -- which is in the united states, but my jmp routes my traffic through the UK so i get his with this.

i just don't bother with bluesky.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Free VPN use is like worse than not using one tbh. Like if its free its definitely monitoring you. And who knows what else its doing. It's about as safe as going to the dark alley downtown and accepting some "Free samples" from the guy selling weed out of his jacket.

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