and fuck the UK goverment
Wear King Charles mask and take a selfie.
It is fucking mental that an industry plagued by data harvesting is being asked to harvest more data.
Anyway, I’m now in Belgium according to my VPN.
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Yeah I hate this. Glad I’m not using it much anymore anyway but damnnnn. I’m convinced they’re rolling this out under the guise of child safety but with the profit motive of data harvesting for their donors
Basically what FB does, and you already know they use it to sell your data and train their AI
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Lol yeah I’m not doing that. VPN all the way.
Today I’m french.
Tomorrow, who knows?
The possibilities are endless.
Too bad VPN server addresses are on-sight to reddit’s IP blocking strategy for years now. For whatever good internet choice you make, reddit reciprocates with an equally bad one
Blocking VPNs from posting or vviewing content too?
Remember when you didn’t even need an email address to sign up for reddit?
If I need to look at that site, my LibRedirect extension sends me to a privacy focused mirror
Mullvad has couple of USA exits that don’t get blocked by Reddit. Texas and D.C., I think.
so does nord but to me the point of using a VPN is to get my traffic exit point out of the US and the other eyes countries
I usually use US because I like the localization of websites more that way.
What’s funny about that is the VPN I use I saw advertised on Reddit. I wonder if these companies know that they ban users for using their products? Well I guess they don’t really don’t care.
Other companies: Thank you for buying from our sponsors! Here’s a code for 15% off!
Reddit: You bought from our sponsors? Lol, you’re banned.
What’s preventing you from uploading a random photo for that estimate age from selfie button?
You can’t upload, only use the camera
Nobody has created some sort of fake virtual camera thing? Like it appears in device manager as a real webcam, but the output is altered?
I’d assume that this is something that can be most-easily bypassed at the browser level if a site can request access to a camera.
I don’t think that any trusted-to-the-camera hardware stack exists today.
But at an OS level…
I dunno about Windows, but Linux can do virtual video-4-linux devices, which is probably how the OS exposes a camera to a browser on Linux.
https://github.com/v4l2loopback/v4l2loopback
This module allows you to create “virtual video devices”. Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.
Yes of course they have like sparkocam or manycam and of course the mentioned below v4l devices on linux
What if your PC has no camera?
Hold up a photo of any random schmoe?
Have you never done one of these for an ID check? Doesn’t work like that, it will likely ask you to turn your head so it can take a “3D” scan.
I never have had to do one of these, and I promise I’m not deliberately trying to ask stupid questions. Would this system be fooled by holding up a mannequin head?
Unfortunately they require “proof of liveness”, you have to open your mouth or tilt your head or whatever. There are ways around it but I too have nuked my Reddit account and returned to Lemmy today.
Gross
FUCK THAT NOISE WTFFFFF give me 2015 back
Lucky we’re on Lemmy, where it’s basically 2015 😁
I’m going to do the Harlem shake at a David Bowie concert!
VPN, friend
So I don’t have a horse in the race, but I am curious if you follow the link to estimate age from selfie, and claimed some random picture of a politician is your selfie, would that work?
Idk but it probably forces use of ur camera and uses faceid features. can’t just upload a random photo
As those policies are enforced client side, an industrious person could probably see how it works and do whatever. I can’t seem to trigger any age verification to see, but if it works in a web browser, you can pretty much rewrite everything about it and make it upload whatever you like.
Sy far the only ones I’ve seen are scenarios where I have to upload photo to match my appearance when I show up in person to something, so it’s not useful in that context, but I’m suspecting this scenario is similar.
The counter argument could be that if a person has that ability, they are probably close enough to being an adult and/or have earned their technically illegal access to porn, and the site operator made a good earnest attempt that stands up to casual lying.
From what I have heard it’s absolute bare minimum level of checks so it will probably work
Does old.reddit.com still work? It used to not even require a login for NSFW.
I don’t know about local requirements in the UK but testing now in the US, yes old.reddit.com allows access to NSFW subs without a login
They ID at the liquor store too.
Go ahead and give a better solution. I’m up for it.Don’t be dumb, this isnt even close to the same thing.
The “thing” is how to age gate materials on the internet. I said I’m up for a solution. What’s yours?
Why stop at porn? Any objectionable words (like darn or poop), or any form of non-consensual contact (including Three Stooges pies in the face) must require photo ID to access. The internet is for everyone, after all.
No that’s not how the world works. All things are not for everybody. Ask any parent. Your kids do not get to run free and do whatever they want.
Exactly. So why should we require ID for porn and not for a bad word?
If you don’t know the answer to that then you’re not a parent are you?
To quote Steve Hofstadder, I’m not a helicopter pilot either but if I see one in a tree I know someone fucked up.
There already is a solution. Parents need to be involved in restricting what their kids are viewing. Thats the solution, but parents dont want to do that, they want the sites to do the job for them.
Nope. Its already been tried. The internet is too ubiquitous.
And that’s like saying, all liquor stores should not require ID, and it’s the parents fault if an underage kid acquires some booze.
Silly.Again, liquor store and this aren’t even remotely the same. So your example is irrelevant. Silly.
This is about age restriction which is entirely the same. You can stop commenting now because I don’t think you’re following along.
Im following along perfectly fine. You’re the one not comprehending the fallacies in your argument, but nice try. Im done responding to you after this though anyway cause its obvious you aren’t interested in actually listening and learning.
A solution presumes there is a problem in the first place.
You don’t say?
Except you’re not at the risk of the liquor store owners storing a copy of your ID when they quickly review it
Nor at risk of a server misconfiguration leaking all the copies to random assholes
That’s why we need a novel solution.
What the heck is a “novel solution”
It seems like a great way to deprive young people of education and exposure to foreign culture. Not to mention asking everyone to validate there age seems like a great way to ruin the entire internet.
You taking it a little far I think there. Education into foreign culture can be provided by books.
Anyway, there are things that children should not be allowed to have access to. And that access has always been partially governed by parents and partially governed by Society.
Now when I was a kid my dad could take me to an R-rated movie and that’s fine. But no parent, no admission.
When you’re there in person someone can look at you and make a judgment of your age or they can ID you.
That’s not possible using the internet without people saying it’s too invasive.
So we need some kind of solution which provides enough anonymity while also being able to absolutely confirm you are above certain age.I think the reality is that kids will get exposed to adult content at some point on the internet. As a parent it is very important to have sex related conversations early so that your kid doesn’t get taken advantage of. At the end of the day kids grow up to be adults and sometimes that happens much faster than we would like it to. Even if you shelter your kid they will still get exposed from other kids. You can’t control teens and young adults.
Government should provide a way to anonymously verify that you have reached a certain age (not your exact age). If your id is a smart card, the proof could even be generated offline.
In this case I blame the UK government
I’m not sure what you all are doing
I blame all the people with “purity” kinks who took it so far they actually created movements and entire societies based around denying the most natural and harmless feelings we have as a species.
Lol what is this from
Team four stars’ Hellsing abridged. I highly recommend.
Hellsing Abridged from TFS, classic. If you’re gonna watch it you should do it on twitch since they used a copyrighted song for an epic sync that happens in one of the later episodes that got muted on youtube. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/294882536?collection=Y4Lf2g4TSRXQGQ
Oh man I love TFS, I didn’t know they had done anything since DBZ abridged.
What I don’t understand is that there are ways to prevent kids from looking at porn that don’t rely on crazy shit like this, even if they do involve some government action. Having to send a picture of your face to a porn provider to view porn is the dumbest possible way to fix this. I suspect the real reason for all of this is people want to effectively ban porn altogether and dumb fucks are letting them.
Having to upload your ID anywhere is already sketchy as-is, let alone a porn site. What ever happened to the days of “never use your real name on the internet”? Computer class teachers would drill that into students’ heads all the way through K-12.
When Facebook came along, I thought people were insane for posting things under their full name with their photo attached to it. I thought MySpace was asking for too much personal info as-is! Fast forward ~20 years, and not only are you expected to provide your real identity on several websites, some American states even require it now!
Honestly blows my mind how willingly we gave up our online anonymity without even the slightest bit of pushback. We all just accept it as normal now.
FB has a very aggressive data mining verification for making an account, they don’t even let you use some obscure emails to registet
It’s going to be interesting to see if, after Britons become accustomed to letting websites take pictures of their identity documents, whether there will be interesting fraud attempts made on the British public from other websites who claim that they are conforming to British law.
@markovs_gun @Abraxas Kids are being banned from all social media here in Australia soon. Including, it seems, YouTube lol.
Expensive and completely unworkable. Reminds me I must spin up that Mastodon instance for my kids and their mates :mastodondance:
It’s absolutely not about making sure everyone signs up to DigitalID.
