As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, is the day I leave.
Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.
I hope you will, too.
And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.
@benroyce wow I hate so many things about the way they’ve phrased that.
1. Age appropriate according to whom? What are you, my mom?
2. Just give us this data real quick, it’ll be so easy. Don’t think about it too much, definitely do it without thinking please. Also we’re holding your account hostage
3. It’s private, trust us.™️
@Bobblegagger @benroyce Hm. On the bright side, those do seem mostly like services that would know it directly from you as opposed to having bought it from someone.
I’d still prefer not getting the email, but it’s something.
@benroyce @Bobblegagger only as far as I can throw them
(I’m not particularly strong)
EVHaste is quantifying their arm strength: write that down! put it on their data broker profile! 🤭
@benroyce @Bobblegagger nooooo two more bits for fingerprinting, what have I done
(A friend taught me that phrase this morning)
i am sure the data scrapers have come for mastodon
AI training, etc
but it's nice to know there's no backdoor connection to our real lives
and i've seen lively discussions on here about how to trap web spiders that ignore robots.txt
EVHaste
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
Hermey G