Mastodawn

The correct response is still "Fuck you Discord, too little too late".

They're only pulling back from March to later this year, and adding credit card options instead of face scans isn't addressing the issue of "fuck you, you don't need to know who I am".

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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

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disorderlyf Feb 25

@alice @Em0nM4stodon It's not even just "you don't need to know who I am." For me, it's "I don't respond well to extortion where the option with the least friction involves handing you something I either can't change without re-issuing documents and possibly physically moving in the case of IDs, or something I need to get COSMETIC SURGERY to change in the case of facial recognition data" especially when they already have a history of shitting the bed on security and lying to our faces about retention.

bUt YoU cAN jUSt uSe YouR CrEdIt CarD!

A) Not all of us have a fucking credit card
B) If y'all fuck up with my credit card data, I'm potentially even more fucked than if you fuck up with my ID.

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Before cell phones were ubiquitous, credit card usage was how they tracked people.