Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 hours agoI’d argue its completely relevant as they are trying to save face here. Anyone who has somehoe made it to 2026 without a hostile relationship to corporations (most red and blue team in America) will probably take this as a sign to come back for now.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Agreed; Discord is trying to lull people into a false sense of security as a means of convincing them to stay, in the same manner that Reddit gave limited API access to apps like RedReader to step the tide of users leaving for platforms like Lemmy.
Beyond age verification, if Discord is scanning a user’s messaging history to determine what their age is, one can only imagine all the other data valuable to data brokers that they are extracting from it too.