Mastodawn

RE: https://toot.cafe/@soapdog/116290204253136215

“So it failed age verification and locked me out of many features. Bear in mind, I am 45 years old. I have an Apple account for 25 years, the age of my personal account alone should already verify my age.

Credit cards are not documents. Many people don’t have them. Apple don’t provide any other way to verify your age because they are a stupid American company with American values in which you’re just as human as your credit score.

Age verification is a scam, but checking it with a credit card is even worse.”

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shwell 1d ago

@aral Be agentive and ditch this shit. Use something else or better still, ditch mobile entirely.

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Aral Balkan

@shwell Telling people to forego the basic conveniences of modern life (like being able to pay for things and pay your bills, etc.) isn’t going to work. It’ll work for the 1% who care/have the technical knowledge/time.

The rest need proper alternatives.

(And a huge part of this, at this point, is legislation that breaks the monopolistic stranglehold two trillion-dollar US corporations have on mobile payments, banking apps, etc.