Kevin BeaumontI registered as an adult on an online service by using the photo mode in a video game, to take a picture of a character, then used that picture on the webcam to say I'm over 18 ✅
This works via the services which let you verify your face via your phone btw, just put the game into photo mode and then move the character or camera around as requested.
lol the masses are discovering it
This will be a The Sun headline next week
Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima
The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.
Gary Blosser@GossiTheDog being the UK I would guess their next step is to immediately ban any and all video games as a threat to children. 😒
ThePfromtheOAnd they wouldn't be wrong, although the reason is other.
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️@zombie042 @GossiTheDog ... And then they came for the compilers.
Alan Miller 
🇺🇦@GossiTheDog given the recent hack of tens of thousands of IDs from Tea, I wonder how many different entities requiring age verification are going to get similarly popped in the future. Bypassing seems like a legitimate personal security measure.
toerror@fencepost @GossiTheDog Yep.. I expect it'll get used as a prescident for the introduction of a government ID card system.
Papers please.
Papers please.
Billy O'Neal@GossiTheDog Tell me you didn't go to a single school or whatever that tries to do website blocking and see what happens without telling me you didn't go to a single school..........
jonathankoren™@GossiTheDog Hideo Kojima remains the coolest person the internet
whimsyThe future is weird. Imagine explaining this to George Orwell.
gilesyea but kids would never... lol
Chloe G artist@GossiTheDog could have done with that this morning when Discord told me I had failed,twice, because I was in the teen age group. I’m 64.
secretsloth@Chloeg @GossiTheDog a few years ago I probably wouldn't have passed either, and since the selfie cam tends to edit out the dark circles that make me look old and tired, pretty much my only signs of age, who knows. Did nobody consider that *not everyone ages the same* ???
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