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PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Jesus, my son wanted to add a classmate as a friend on Xbox Live last night. It should have been a two step process from a parent perspective: Authenticate, then authorise (though the lad was delegated the task of the latter technically).

When he tried to add the friend, I had to:

  1. Enter my parental code (fair enough);
  2. Enter my Microsoft Account password because it was apparently a transaction involving personal data;
  3. Scan the QR code to do this on another device (admittedly optional);
  4. Enter the email address of my MS account;
  5. Enter the 2FA code emailed to me;
  6. Stop the passkey creation process;
  7. Confirm that I didn’t want a passkey;
  8. Skip the age verification;
  9. Turn off the personalised ads

Just so he could get to the point where he could select “add as a friend”, what the actual fuck

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