Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I’ve only looked Facebook, Discord, and YouTube so far. No general age gating, but today is the first day I’ve been asked for age verification by Discord to view NSFW channels. Frustrating, because the only NSFW channel I actually ever look at is for some very slightly memes in a server that I’m a mod of. Hard to mod if they’re gating me.
I suspect they’ve tagged my account, so a VPN won’t work. But I wonder if pointing my camera at some fake old people will work.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Probably, unless they found a way to fix it. Kids in the UK already did that by using some mode in Death Stranding and another game to make the character open his mouth and make the required expressions on camera.
I hate ai but you could probably pull some fake old geezer off google and there might be a few with different faces.
I won’t be bothering though. I’m tired. Think I’ll just drop my email or number to a handful of people still on the platforms and if they don’t keep in touch then that’s that.
My reliance on social media has been externally forced and using it has started to aggressively suck. Lemmy may be the one platform I bother to try to keep.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I wonder if the instructions are consistent enough that someone could make a bespoke video on YouTube that opens its mouth at the right time.
tbh it looks like most of these platforms are going to be predominantly relying on historical analysis and account age, so most people probably won’t ever need to provide any evidence. If your Facebook account is 10+ years old, has photos of you on it already, and you’ve shared content including boring adult subjects like politics and professional sports, they’ll probably already assume you’re an adult.
I’ve definitely been getting increasingly frustrated at Facebook’s algorithm though. At the very least I am seriously considering installing an extension that hides the entire News Feed, so I only see stuff that I specifically seek out, which will likely only be on a handful of pages I actually care about.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I’ve got no idea. Maybe someone with filters on can perform the movements that get asked for.
I’m not going to use a real name one though which is the only one old enough. Facebook is also really kind of crap, I haven’t gone on it in ages.
Also years ago I got my data out of curiousity and Google though I was an 18 year old male gamer.