Yehuda TurtleIsland.social
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Deleted my Discord account. I'm not gonna give them a face scan or ID. #GoodByeDiscord
Feb 10 at 12:46amWeb
Show threadYehuda TurtleIsland.socialFeb 10

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On social media, alarmed Discord users protested the move, doubting whether Discord could be trusted with their most sensitive information after Discord age verification data was recently breached. In October, hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 Discord users from a third-party service that Discord previously trusted to verify ages in the United Kingdom and Australia.

#GoodByeDiscord
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids/

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

Discord to block adult content unless users verify ages with selfies or IDs.

Ars Technica
Show threadLukefromDCFeb 10

@Yehuda I never had them. I decided over a decade ago to stop making accounts with any new ad supported service and phase out existing ones.

Facebook was first to go, I've hated them since the very first Washington Post article I learned of their existance from. At that time, their habit of having in-house moderators forward shit to police was rather spicy, and it was enough to put them on my enemies list. Never had an account there.

Next up was Youtube, first over Content ID tracking backing music back in 2010, not long after first using them. At that point I stopped using them to host any new videos. In 2012 they posted new TOS that allowed cross-device tracking. Before it could take effect, I closed comments on every video so as not to create an open forum for fash, declared the account abandoned in the channel description, then deleted the files on my machines containing the login info.

Discord I have never used, I have chosen not to work at all with groups that require Discord to interact with them. I suspect (but am not sure) that their phone app requires Google Play Services, which is another thing I refuse to have on phones.

For me, age verification is mostly pulling up drawbridges I exited over years ago for other reasons.

Show threadGwenFeb 10
@Yehuda I would delete it if my friends would be ok with using anything else
Show threadYehuda TurtleIsland.socialFeb 10
@PortableDoughnut Yeah feel ya, it was an easy delete for me, since I haven't been using it for seems like a year.