Good bye corporate internet. I won’t miss you
Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet
Submitted 5 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html
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ashenone@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Fuck that. The future fucken sucks.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 hours ago
I'm literally now playing ps2 games on my modbo chip ps2 slim.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Glad I got a decent Xbox 360 collection.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
And as soon as that happens, I’m out. I’d rather just opt out of the modern internet. I already have to deal with my information getting leaked from various different services at least once every couple years it seems. I can change a credit card or an password, I can’t change my ID.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 hours ago
We'll build our own Internet.
With black jack and...nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
We have already done that. It’s called Dreddit and not even major governments can stop it.
TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
We already have gemini. A text based internet protocol like gopher.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Black jack anddddd…
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
I’m literally going around trying out old school forum sites this week.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 26 minutes ago
Why do you assume that the old school forums are going to get exempted? They are going to get on the bus or get run over by it just like everywhere else. Government has already proven that they can, and will, regulate those forums.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Car forums are still alive and well because they’re a great repository of knowledge. There are plenty of computing forums too still.
PushButton@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I am already browsing the “old way”, since the mess with reddit…
I found out there is a forum for everything. It’s not centralized in one website, but it’s not that different than browsing /r/whatever you know.
More often than not, the discussions are more intelligent and on point too.
For my doom-scrolling needs, Lemmy does the job.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Let us know what you find. I’m ready to go back to the 90s/early 2000s internet. Golden era of the internet.
commander@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
We’re heading back to the dreams of the 90s with people running websites on non-standard ports. Take a performance and usability hit for the return of a more decentralized Internet. Probably still more usable than the early internet with all the lessons learned and tools available to modern developers. We can also bring back the term: web master
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
There are already far more people in raw numbers on various federated/non-commercial/self-hosted/indie web stuff than there ever were on the early web- it just takes a little effort to find it.
zer0bitz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
See you guys in I2P.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Or ZeroNet
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Google already changed logged out YouTube to a single row of recommendations and a button to login on roku and Android shield when it used to look like the logged in version just a couple weeks ago. Probably the kick I needed to get off, mostly just using it for a couple smaller call-in/debate streamers I can switch to a podcast or other version.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
They intend to tie a name to every keystroke
balder1991@lemmy.world 45 minutes ago
That won’t matter when everything becomes paywalled.
flandish@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
will a headshot from “thispersondoesnotexist.com” work?
VonReposti@feddit.dk 3 hours ago
The first picture I got was a boy, so no, I don’t think it’ll work every time.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Maybe the whole corporate internet. Unless we’re forced into aol style portals by the death of net neutrality i think most of the lemmy user base will be fine. Shout-out to /c/self selfhosted for those looking to get ahead of the permission gate.
badbytes@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I will cancel my subscription
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Tor, and mesh networks. Every article brings me closer to going hard just for the lulz.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Ok, do any good mesh networks exist today that people actually use? I’d love to invest in some hardware and join some form of this.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Lol no it isn’t.
I will kill for this
gigachad@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Better start downloading the important documents now
Jaded99@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Good!! Lets jail all the pedos too
victorz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Article is paywalled.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 hours ago
There we go again. The internet is already broken.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
You must provide your age and DNA sample too
mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Yeah I tried to get archive.org working with it but no dice.
AJ1@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
oh no, the world will find out I’m 50. oh the shame, oh the horror.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Problem is, this isn’t about getting your age, it’s about identifying you online.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
And they will know what you look like. And with some data extrapolation where you are, where you go, your searches, what you’re into, your payment methods, where you live, your schedule, who you interact with, and the list goes on.
This is one more data point for big brother to collect and share with the highest bidder, or to get leaked to people who do not have your best interests in mind.
balder1991@lemmy.world 32 minutes ago
And when some data is leaked, your id will be with it.
tane69@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Dumbest possible response someone could’ve made. How have you made it to 50 without a handler?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
50 and this naive?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Plot twist: they’re 17 and covering their tracks
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Lol no
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 hours ago
Hell no. Just use decentralized apps, fediverse etc. It's not about "protecting" children. It's about full control and power. So don't give up.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 35 minutes ago
Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time. There’s nothing stopping any Governments authorities from going after servers inside their borders and there’s nothing stopping them from “harmonizing” identity verification restrictions among other countries. They’ve already done it once with Intellectual Property law.
This push to de-anonymize the Internet isn’t new either. Microsoft started this back in the oughts with their Passport / Digital-ID program. Google and Meta, along with others, long ago launched their own versions and why you can sign into so many websites with a Google or Facebook account.
It’s generally referred to as IdP and now that the Internet has been fully corporatized, with minor holdouts, you can bet your bippy that the days of anonymous access are ending.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 16 minutes ago
If only there was a non-commercial, decentralized way of doing the same thing we are already doing. Perhaps make it free too. Hmmm
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 33 minutes ago
You’d need to decentralize the Internet itself. Good luck with that one…
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
It’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.
TheMonk@lemmings.world 56 minutes 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.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Sure but it would be trivial for a company to build profiles on people using public apps like Lemmy.