Jesus, so all of this age, id verification they are straight up telling us they are using it for commercial purposes and sharing it with data brokers and tech companies? I hope no one does it, and instead drops out and finds fediverse alternatives, this could be the trigger that gets critical mass, and gets the impetuous to make some new social media to meet the needs that corporate tech has refused us without unacceptable costs.

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Ahh Persona again...

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona

Groqcloud? Related to that fascist's company?

I did this verification shot months ago. Now this article got me depressed. I should have known better

To add to the article, Persona is also one of the companies at the centre of the recent furore around Discord age verification.

That's among the reasons I never had a LinkedIn account.

Even the original use case for LinkedIn asked you to have your entire work history and contact information on the site. That alone always made it a massive target for bad actors trying to collect information to use for identity theft.

Decided to verify my account few months ago because, as per LinkedIn, verification makes your chances of getting recruited higher (which may be total bullshit). But when I saw it led to a third-party service that seemed pretty shaddy and over the top, I decided against it. Glad I trusted my gut feeling