Finally it seems the end of Reddit is near.
Let’s see how much VPN subscription count will go up
Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits
Submitted 8 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/reddit-age-verification-check-uk-law-online-safety
Comments
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 8 months ago
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You’re overestimating Reddit’s value.
lemmyuser68@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
🤮
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 8 months ago
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/oldlander/
This addon makes using old reddit on mobile bearable.
drspod@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
How old is your account?
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 8 months ago
Ah there we go, same old shit
If you visit via old.reddit you can dismiss the modals to sign into the app or your account.
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 8 months ago
Reddit account?
Pretty old since I haven’t nuked it yet, but I’m not even signed in above as you can see from the above screenshot
I should really login sometime to see if I have lots of threats from mister greedy Spez piggy again, but the headline here doesn’t match up to me trying it in the UK rn.
kokesh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why would anyone use that shit after this?
Brewchin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
By “that shit”, do you mean every website/app that may contain age-restricted (not just sexual) content? Because that’s what comes into force in the UK next week.
I’ve been dreading this for decades. 🤬
It’s not just Reddit, nor are they the first to roll it out early.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Many sites will just geo-block the UK. I think my Lemmy instance has, just like PornHub has blocked US states that have passed similar laws.
iii@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Because all the alternatives will have to implement similar shit as well. It’s UK law.
genevieve@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
[deleted]survirtual@lemmy.world 8 months ago
These assholes are all pedophiles and they use it to control the planet. To get to high levels of government, you must enter the shadow contract of pedophilia. It is easy to control people and trust people with that kind of shadow on them, so it is required.
Then they turn around and use pedophilia to control everyone else. Any tech that threatens their power, they can immediately shutdown by pedo-bombing it. The counter to pedobombing is authoritarian moderation. Once you have that, it is over. The government they control now can control the mods, and that means they control the narrative. THAT is one of the core enemies to fight. An alternative to Reddit or any other system is not enough.
Because pedophilia is such a taboo / social death sentence, it is among the most powerful shadow contracts.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
UK is full blown authoritarian now. They have been arresting journalists who are covering the genocide in Gaza and designated a direct action protest group as a terrorist organisation.
jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
What’s to stop uploading a random picture of a person? Or even an AI generated person? I get what they’re trying to do, but seems like legislative theater more than anything.
Technofrood@feddit.uk 8 months ago
So from my experience of these type of systems (mostly in the context of banking services) they normally want to use your devices camera to take the picture directly, and normally also want a photo of a photographic ID to compare against.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sounds like a good area that’s about to get a whole lot better at faking this system. I would just take a picture of a picture if that’s what it takes. Then again, I would never do this and will just look elsewhere.
manualoverride@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Let’s not forget all that lovely metadata they can harvest by accessing the camera module, including the exact GPS co-ordinates the picture was taken.
Babalugats@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Within banking apps it has become the norm, it shouldn’t mean it’s acceptable, but for the wider community it is accepted.
But for a fucking forum?? Christ. Especially at a time when Europe are trying to establish digital sovereignty and all of the stories coming out about the US government having access to data. We already know that they are willing to share that with the highest bidder (s).
People would have to be absolute morons to upload anything personal to Reddit, nevermind your photo ID like a passport or driving licence. But obviously that’s what they’re banking on (people being morons).
iii@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I’ve once attempted to open a bank account where they wanted video proof, and expected me to say a randomly assigned phrase. I didn’t do it.
Fucking KYC is BS.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
As much as I dislike it, it makes sense for banks to do that.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Banks are highly regulated so it is not surprising that thet would as for identity proof, reddit on the other hand has no business doing it.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s how they get your real identity and send you to jail for opposing the Western genocide du jour…
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yeah, I will definitely trust an internet stranger with my face so they can verify that I’m not underage to access content which could, in case of being leaked, damage my reputation or even destroy my life.
DEFINITELY
genevieve@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
[deleted]clot27@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Oh the cute little corpo is promising to delete your data, how can we not trust him🥺🥺
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Google uses reddit for its AI training. Just saying.
Almacca@aussie.zone 8 months ago
God help us all.
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Why doubt, I mean they promised?
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It is not just that, I don’t trust Persona security, it a malicious actor installed a silent program that monitors users and sends it to a command and control center they probably won’t know for months or even years. Cyber security these is very bad in most companies.
dugmeup@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Time to go to LemmyNSFW
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Under the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.
lotharmatthaeus@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
That’s always down when I want to use it :(
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Presses X furiously
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Very careful wording there to switch between Persona and Reddit to conveniently omit one from the justification given by the other.
Mihies@programming.dev 8 months ago
It’d be only fair if they required NSFW selfies.