Richard Sobey
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* ???
notsoloud
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉@GossiTheDog Hahaha 🤣 👏 genius xD
Dennis Faucher 
@GossiTheDog That's beautiful
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@GossiTheDog
Yesterday, a web site asked me to select whether I was under or over 18. I was baffled. I'm under 18 meters tall, but over 18 kg weight.
Yesterday, a web site asked me to select whether I was under or over 18. I was baffled. I'm under 18 meters tall, but over 18 kg weight.
Samael 
Units carry so much forgotten and ignored weight in English....
hallunke23 🇺🇦
This isn't about your height or your weight. It's about the time in your time zone. Just check the clock: If it's after 18 hours, you respond over 18, otherwise it's under 18.
MrCopilot@GossiTheDog Oh sure, sure. Its all fun and games until Norman Reedus shows up at our door because he can't look at titties no more.
Patrick Morris Miller@mrcopilot @GossiTheDog I don't think Norman Reedus needs the Internet to look at nekkid ladies, y'know what I mean?
@kentenmakto @GossiTheDog Purely for research in his capacity as an actor you understand.
Alan@GossiTheDog
Ah! I was wondering what convenient app would let me do that.
Of course children don't play video games, so this would never occur to them.
Tito Swineflu@GossiTheDog That's how they do it? That's so damn stupid. We need to see if it works with one of those filters that puts a beard on someone with a picture of a baby.
Mark T. Tomczak@GossiTheDog "Oh man, we gotta register this one, he's got the Death Stranding!"
(... I assume that's some contagious thing; never played the game and even i I had played it I haven't had the mental capacity to follow Hideo Kojima writing since 9/11 happened. 😉 ).
@GossiTheDog Just use a vpn like everyone else
Chris RealI'm really encouraged that teenagers are starting accounts in the fediverse.
Clever hacks are just the tip of the iceberg, for youngbloods!😊👍
Patsy (she/her)@GossiTheDog
I was considering using chatgpt for the one and only time of my life to create a fake id for an 87 year old man
I was considering using chatgpt for the one and only time of my life to create a fake id for an 87 year old man
Oli@GossiTheDog
The ironic thing is that its the younger people who will have the skills and be really, really adept at bypassing age verification
And the always-on social media to share the techniques
My kids learnt so much about proxies, tor and vpn's from college, not in class but from their peers
Gabs@GossiTheDog welp, here's to my dumb ass who thought the whole "just put a pebble in your shoe to throw off gait recognition" thing was a bit of a simple workaround in @pluralistic 's Little Brother
[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD@GossiTheDog LMAO
thats hilarious, i should try that
ZvenSEX 18 , killing with gun 12 ... get a grip people , that s not the issue
MegatronicThronBanks@GossiTheDog Excellent work
David@GossiTheDog The most ridiculous part is, the free parental controls included in Windows and macOS (and available freely for most child-friendly Linux distros) already recognize <meta name="rating" content="adult"/>, which is already included in every site even attempting to comply with "age verification" laws. If parents aren't negligent in their administration of computing devices they provide to children, then age verification laws make no difference whatsoever to children's ability to access porn.
But of course, porn is just the excuse. The only thing these laws actually hinder children accessing is accurate sex ed and the like.
CySsssh don't let them know or they'll fix it!
Cats Who Resist!@GossiTheDog Excellent idea! I'm doing this next time!! I wasn't sure how to get around it before.
@GossiTheDog god damnit this made me lol
MrBadAxe@GossiTheDog Modern Problems etc etc