Em Feb 24

YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉

Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!

IT WORKS! ✊🔒

https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/

Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.

But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.

This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.

Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Discord #PrivacyWin

Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac

Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...

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Show threadSarFeb 24

@Em0nM4stodon

Hit their bottom pockets and the "necessary thing" quickly becomes "optional".

Amazing what bleeding money and an impending IPO will do.

Show threadsoloFeb 24
@sar @Em0nM4stodon they are still doing it. nothing has changed.
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@solonovamax @sar @Em0nM4stodon

The person responsible for that headline should be flogged, at least metaphorically. "Canceled...for now."

Oh, you mean delayed? Postponed? Rescheduled?

Even with the qualifier at the end "canceled" lends the act a more permanent connotation than they actually intend.

...thus concludes my channeling of my news editor father . . . for now.

Feb 25 at 12:30amWeb
Show threadsoloFeb 25

@EdCates @sar @Em0nM4stodon not just "for now"

they're very clearly still going through with it:

https://tech.lgbt/@solonovamax/116128249113105750

solo (@[email protected])

to anyone touting this as them changing their mind: they have not. they still plan to do exactly the same thing they planned to before. that is, use your messages to determine your and if you get included in the 10% that are assumed to be children you have to upload id/do a facial scan. none of this has changed. they still plan to do a global rollout of age verification. https://discord.com/blog/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-whats-changing @[email protected] https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116127786561206440

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