Sure but it would be trivial for a company to build profiles on people using public apps like Lemmy.
Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 8 hours agoIt’s about the information vacuum. Now every service will get your ID or photo, giving them both age and a whole sort of other metrics to build a profile on you. And yes, Lenny.ca doesn’t know that about me.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 minutes ago
If it was so trivial why would they even bother making everyone show their IDs?
pennomi@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
But not necessarily link it to your other accounts or real identity, which is the point.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
The folks who build tracking / id systems would maybe need an afternoon to go from your Lemmy username to your home address. They’d need five more minutes to know your underwear size, your license plate number, and where you slept last night.
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
For my account sure. But it’s also reasonable to have a fairly decent account that’s decoupled from all your other accounts. Use a temp email provider, VPN, and proper browser and you’re most of the way there.
TheMonk@lemmings.world 7 hours ago
I gotta be honest I thought I’d never be able to quit Reddit. But it was a lot easier when I just did it. If this shit becomes the norm, I’ll back out of a site first time they try that shit and block the site. Maybe I’ll just have to stop using the internet. Wouldn’t that be a net positive on my life. You made me do this, capitalism.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
This is a problem with Government not an economic system.
TheMonk@lemmings.world 7 hours ago
But this scene was set by capitalism. The family friendly, market friendly internet is the basis for this entire issue. Yeah, government is the one finally pulling the trigger on sanctioned, total control, but we’ve been surveilled and profiled and censored for decades at this point by countless corporations for ad dollars. We’ve gone through the cycles of outrage and acquiescence and outrage and acquiescence as things have gotten worse and worse—same goes for the quality of politician, all bought and paid for by telecom companies neutering everything we can do to make the market and internet more favorable while the politicians got worse and worse and we began accepting it and just laughing it off.
And here we are. Don’t be fooled, this is 100% at the feet of capitalism.
planish@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Capitalism runs on top of government. Governments create and enforce the notion that a human, or a fictional human with fractional ownership (corporation), can in turn own arbitrarily large and important objects.
This is often done at the behest of said arbitrarily-large-and-important-thing-owners, who also come up with other similarly terrible ideas to have the government do.