Taggart Feb 11

Discord claims "most users" will never go through an age verification process because they're already monitoring your behavior.

For the majority of adult users, we will be able to confirm your age group using information we already have. We use age prediction to determine, with high confidence, when a user is an adult. This allows many adults to access age-appropriate features without completing an explicit age check.

Gotta say, constant behavior analysis is not the warm and fuzzy blanket they seem to think it is.

https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-is-building-safer-experiences-for-teens

A Safer Discord by Default: New Teen Safety Updates

Discord is rolling out global teen safety updates designed to create age-appropriate experiences by default.

Show threadOliver D. ReithmaierFeb 11
@mttaggart how else would they make money? Not that I want to defend data selling at all, I hate it with a passion, but at some point we need to be asking ourselves what exactly it is we are expecting from for-profit companies.
Show threadTaggart Feb 11

@odr_k4tana Nitro...exists? So does their ad program, Quests. They are bending the knee to age verification globally in anticipation of potential legislation, and doing so with the sketchiest of tech, after already losing 70k users' PII in a breach.

This isn't about revenue.

Show threadOliver D. ReithmaierFeb 11
@mttaggart really? From a cost perspective, it makes sense. You have the system already, and legislation might change. Rather than maintaining two states, you kill one and make the one you have to implement anyways default. They were bought by an investor, they need to produce value. Cutting costs is the go-to for that.
Show threadTaggart 
@odr_k4tana I don't really know why you feel the need to jump to defend the poor suffering corporation prepping for an IPO. But lots of things "make sense" from a pure revenue perspective that are at odds with user's best interests.
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Show threadOliver D. ReithmaierFeb 11
@mttaggart I don't give a shit about discord. Let it burn, I don't care. All I said was to demonstrate why this, in my eyes, is very much about revenue. Legislative threats can translate into real issues fast. Execs perceiving such threats will adjust their way of doing things to minimize the potential impact.