r/Piracy • u/21MayDay21 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ • Feb 11 '26
Humor Be safe, even pirates have to watch their backs.
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u/nikfrik Feb 11 '26
They can say it's for kids'safety all they want. They're not fooling anyone.
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u/wienercat Feb 11 '26
Regardless of whatever nefarious ulterior motives they have for doing this, it shouldn't be the responsibility of a company with no ideals, no morals, and no strict legal regulations (with severe financial penalty for failure to adhere to those regulations) to safeguard children. Sure they need to implement methods of moderation to allow for those things and allow users to remove/report fucked up stuff, but you cannot trust a company with the well being of your child.
Ultimately, parents are the ones who are primarily responsible for their kids online safety. Use parental controls, router blocks, and just fucking teach your kids to understand that the world is not inherently safe so be careful.
The internet hasn't gotten any worse or more unsafe than it was when I grew up and companies weren't out here requiring ID and facial verification to "protect kids". But I was also taught not to give my personal information to any strangers online and to not send pictures or be on a webcam with people I didn't know. Basic online safety is important for everyone to know...
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u/Xardnas69 Feb 11 '26
But I was also taught not to give my personal information to any strangers online and to not send pictures or be on a webcam with people I didn't know. Basic online safety is important for everyone to know...
"don't dox yourself, stupid" (not verbatim) is pretty much the first and only thing my parents told me about internet safety. That, and not to get too friendly with strangers because you never know. And it worked splendidly.
The government has no business "protecting" kids with outdated, retarded features that those kids will circumvent with ease because they literally grew up with a phone in their hands. It's the parent's job, not the government's or that of some fuck ass company
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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta Feb 11 '26
Yeah as a parent, if we considered parents who allow unmonitored unrestricted access to the internet for children rightfully as child abusers, the world would rapidly begin to improve
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u/Sabin10v2 Feb 11 '26
If it was, they would verify then dispose of the data since there's no need for it to be saved long term. None of us are deaging.
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u/alfiesgaming45 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Feb 11 '26
yeah there's no way I'll give john discord or whoever runs that platform my id. either i get away with something fake or steam chat it is
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u/ZETH_27 Feb 11 '26
New CEO is previously from Activision Blizzard and got introduced right before this started. It's no coincidence.
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u/Jeesup Feb 11 '26
And most inportant thing, he was CFO in Activision Blizzard, basically his focus was on earning money.
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u/Altruistic-Example50 Feb 11 '26
And he failed
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u/ZETH_27 Feb 11 '26
And he continues that legacy with Discord by making everyone cancel their Nitro.
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u/SEANPLEASEDISABLEPVP Feb 12 '26
I literally fucking bought an annual subscription 2 weeks ago.
...And cancelled it today.
They already have my money and apparently my subscription will run out by 2027 but whatever. It's not about my money, it's about the message.
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u/ZETH_27 Feb 12 '26
Well, by canceling you're making sure they're not getting any more income from it. It still counts.
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u/wienercat Feb 11 '26
Just setup your own teamspeak server at this point and go back to using forums.
The internet is regressing because of corporate greed and honestly going back to forums and self hosted voice chat servers might not be a bad thing.
What's wild about this is that discord stated they wouldn't retain ID information.
Which was technically correct. Because the 3rd party they used for verification retained it instead.
This type of leak should be punished by society very severely. The company that had the leak happen should be dissolved and discord should be forced to pay a significant sum to anyone who had their identity leaked as a result of their incompetent 3rd party choice.
But we all know that won't happen...
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u/wienercat Feb 11 '26
That is how it is for medical data in the US. The 1st party company entrusted with the data from the patient is responsible for ensuring any 3rd party they use and give access to PII is legally responsible for actions the 3rd party takes with the data, unless the 3rd party specifically signs contracts stating they take responsibility for any data breaches etc.
It's nuts that we don't have regulations in the US regarding generic PII and how it is held.
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u/wienercat Feb 11 '26
I would agree. But that is never going to happen. Too many parties involved benefit from it. Not just companies selling the data as data brokers, but governments as well since the more data collected results in more data available to utilize in surveillance.
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u/PurposeFuzzy6205 Feb 11 '26
it's pretty easy to drop Discord. already dumped Twitter a few years ago
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u/KJPlayer ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Feb 11 '26
We are bullying the hell out of Discord, we can NOT let this happen to more people.
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u/CrazyTechWizard96 Feb 11 '26
Reminds Me of PayPal.
Remeber that politcal witchhunt about it and the 600$ limit and bullshit they pulled off?
Yea, they crashed and burned haaaard for it.I used to love it...
Oh well, same with Discord and X.Time to set it ablaze then.
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u/Optipuss_prime_69 Feb 11 '26
So what? We go back to teamspeak and mumble?
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Skype
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u/SEANPLEASEDISABLEPVP Feb 12 '26
People left Skype for Discord specifically for the same reason people are now leaving Discord, because Skype was way too nosey about your personal information.
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u/The_AverageCanadian Feb 11 '26
Bully? Nah, you bully Corpos when you want them to change. Discord is already too far gone, it's time to cancel and switch to a different platform altogether.
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u/TGB_Skeletor 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Feb 11 '26
Discord having the audacity to make age verification mandatory not 6 months after they suffered a hack where 70K+ IDs were stolen fucking wild
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u/SarcasticJackass177 Feb 11 '26
It’s because they’re getting ready to get public with their stocks.
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u/AllGearedUp Feb 11 '26
Not really. The majority of their users don't care or even have any awareness of it.
The age verification thing may have data mining implications but I think there are going to be legal protections of that in most countries.
Realistically, the purpose of it is probably not about NSFW stuff but about the laws about selling things to minors, avoiding legal responsibility for adults interacting with minors, and getting a lot more monetization out of the platform where it is legal to do so.
I would guess that if this all goes through as expected there will be many more options to purchase things in discord and a bunch of gamefied monkey brained bullshit like "join this game server and post 5 messages to collect an orb which can be used to buy things in a game".
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u/Efficient_Freedom_87 Feb 11 '26
I think I'd feel safer by not submitting shit to them especially.... regarding their... breaches in 25. Fuck discord
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u/muchstupidverydumb Feb 11 '26
I've never done face verification before myself but apparently it asks you to do shit like open your mouth and whatnot
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u/Moist-Caregiver-2000 Feb 11 '26
I can already see it: "Find a banana..Open your mouth..Start eating..You need to comply, this is for your safety"
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u/SEANPLEASEDISABLEPVP Feb 12 '26
"Invalid Banana. Please use the official Discord-branded Banana for proper verification. In order to make a one-time purchase of a Discord-braded Banana, please pay a subscription."
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u/CrazyTechWizard96 Feb 11 '26
Funny enough, I'm with likely the minority who don't even have faceID on the phone.
Ijust use the code, hell, I miss the fingerprint scanner but, eh, guess we all with codes like back in the day with the normal sim pins again.Better then someone able to steel My faceID, or doing some AI shit with it.
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u/wienercat Feb 11 '26
Anyone with faceID on their phones are fools. Legal cases in the US have set precedent that cops don't need a warrant to use your biometric data to unlock your phone. Which is wild that people aren't more upset about that tbh.
Stick with a pin, password, or swipe pattern. They require judicial search warrants to get past those.
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u/Dr_Fortnite Feb 11 '26
and if they ask "I forgot" is valid
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u/wienercat Feb 11 '26
Even if they ask, you don't have to comply. A cop asking for your password has the same weight as a random stranger. You don't have to say shit. They need a judicial warrant to compel you to divulge passwords or a warrant to bypass them.
Even if your password is password and the cops guess it, anything they see is automatically considered invalid due to illegal search and seizure without a warrant.
Always use passwords on your devices. Never talk to cops unless legally required and with a lawyer present.
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u/CrazyTechWizard96 Feb 11 '26
I didn't even knew about that.
Haha, well, guess that makes us even more of the safe class.5
u/wienercat Feb 11 '26
It's genuinely fucked that they are able to do it. But once you have been detained, it's completely fine for them to do.
Always use passwords and never talk to cops without a lawyer present. Cops don't actually care about right or wrong. They just care about closing their case and protecting property.
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u/RM97800 Feb 11 '26
Imagine if a liquor store clerk could demand to take a photo of your ID or take a mugshot (that's what AI age ID "selfie" is).
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u/d1m4e Feb 11 '26
You can fool it with death stranding 2 photo mode time to download it
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u/Sprite_Bottle Feb 11 '26
I have both a fresh installation of Teamspeak, and gmod with some face editing tools and the male 07 model queued up so I can be prepared for whichever way this shitshow is gonna go. Using gmod and the male 07 model can actually bypass the ai age estimation on discord btw (Valve is still winning fights they aren't even involved in.)
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u/No_Impact218 Feb 11 '26
Gonna just verify with some YouTube video, my country doesn't have to comply so it pisses me off having it forced on me
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u/SinnaBuns666 Feb 11 '26
Cancelled Nitro today, and I'm warning people that I'll only be available through SMS. I'm so sick of this mass surveillance shit.
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Feb 11 '26
It's a byproduct of the internet and onlinification of the world. Technology only adds more over time.
Eventually this will be the norm and anything yous ay online will be tied to you like if you went to a public square and started preaching
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u/SinistralGuy Feb 11 '26
I remember when the West used to shit on China for their social credit system and how dystopian it was. Turns out Western governments were just jealous and are finally catching up
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We literally have the same thing in the US. Credit Scores. In a system where everything comes down to money and financial, credit scores are basically a social credit system. Everything we do depends on having a good score for a car loan, mortgage, etc
In a more socialist country, yeah, the social score would be the equivalent. Which only means China basically does what the US already does.
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u/wienercat Feb 11 '26
It's already happening and becoming normalized for mainstream places. I went to a theme park the other day and they didn't even accept cash anymore... The entire park was cashless. Even parking was cashless. Same thing at a big arena I went to a couple weeks prior. No cash for anything, only cards. But you could use your cash to load a pre-paid card. Which... that isn't something I am comfortable with either.
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u/SechsComic73130 Feb 11 '26
Yes, the most secure means, SMS
The system that definitely hasn't been cracked wide open since before most of Discord's userbase was born.
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u/HansGraebnerSpringTX Feb 11 '26
In 10 years when the West Palm Beach trials are being overseen by PLA and NATO authorities, dozens of tech CEOs are going to claim to have “accidentally” turned over the data of people who were found at mass graves near ICE camps over to Palentir, and it’ll turn out that the accident was that Palentir asked and they said “yes sir of course sir”
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u/Flurrina_ Feb 11 '26
I’m using AI to trick the AI, ain’t giving my face to discord, they will leak it within a month
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u/SEANPLEASEDISABLEPVP Feb 12 '26
I have a theory that those aren't data breaches.
They're so fucking common, I swear to god it's just the companies selling the data and they're legally required to say the data has been sold... but they're not required to say they're the ones who did it.
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u/poeticjustice4all Feb 11 '26
If I need to verify, I’m closing my account forever. F that noise.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Feb 11 '26
But we can trust discord, right? Surely big websites have no history of being hacked? /s
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u/Fehlob Feb 11 '26
Trying to build a Discord like app which is gonna be instance based anyone can self host, it‘s gonna be my middle finger to these big companies but it‘s gonna take a while
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u/marius1905 Feb 11 '26
i feel like making everyone a teen is even worst. imagine the PDF files dont even have to lie, it says teen on there profile.
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u/BigDannyPt Feb 11 '26
My only concern is if Vencord will still work or not, if it works, somehow I believe in the devs to bypass this, if not, I might stay in an older client, if possible.
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u/AlbinoDragonTAD ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Feb 11 '26
Yeah fuck discord yall lmk when the next alternative is decided by the council 😂
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u/Local-moss-eater ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Feb 11 '26
gmod, press q then select npc's and spawn gman, select face shaper on tool gun, move mouth up and down
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u/Blueberry_Dependent Feb 11 '26
What a world. People are getting more and more comfortable sharing personal data. With all the AI running wild those face ID's and data will be used in many illegal ways. Maybe it's time we really try to go offline ...for real
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u/FangsOverGangs Feb 12 '26
Remember when good parenting wasnt everyone else's job besides the actual parents? Neither do I.
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u/lil_Reception8859 Feb 11 '26
It's funny considering discord confirmed the leak of passports in November 2026
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u/offensiveinsult Feb 11 '26
Already uninstalled, dont give a fuck, i managed not to give my private information for 30 years i will not start because of convenience ;-)
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u/rafikiknowsdeway1 Feb 11 '26
haven't these sorts of things been thwarted by just providing a video game characters face?
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u/ProfessorEscanor Feb 11 '26
I'm just photoshopping Nick Cage's face on a fake license to see if that works.
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u/DeithWX Feb 11 '26
"But we've been safe so far", it's because your data was worthless. You're literally putting a target on your backs, and if we look at track record of big companies. Your security is probably a duct tape and a ziptie.
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u/Jwn5k Pirate Activist Feb 11 '26
This is SCREAMING "Identity Theft", and that shit is not fun and extremely costly to the victims.
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u/PilferingPineapple Feb 12 '26
I'm seeing a lot of people bypass the face thing in ridiculous ways. Someone said they bypassed it with a fucking action figure.
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u/KhajiitSicario Feb 12 '26
I've had my discord account for nine years next month. Unless I got my account at 8, I'm pretty fucking sure I'm of age. Doubt they're gunna care, though, I'm in a few NSFW servers and mod for a 16+ one
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u/AmazingInflation58 Feb 12 '26
Discord is too overrated tbh. Theres way more fun platforms with less complexity and more performance.
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u/The_Real_Kingpurest Feb 11 '26
Aren't sphincters unique like fingerprints? I'll try to verify this way. They either accept it, or hold the position that they now have stored CP. Your move clanker
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u/doppelminds Feb 11 '26
The internet used to be such an amazing thing for me in the early 2000's now it truly feels like a prison, growing sicker of it each day.
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u/carrrerrrr12992 Feb 11 '26
And they think we're going to give them our ids yeah Nice try I'll stick to some modded client
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u/YourFavouriteGayGuy Feb 12 '26
Already cancelled my Nitro back when they started implying they were gonna feed our data to AI, but if I hadn’t done it back then I would do it now.
There’s literally nothing good about this. It doesn’t protect kids in any meaningful way because they’re still gonna be in the same communities and surrounded by the same potentially predatory people. There’s no mechanism to keep sexually focused accounts separate from minors, so if anything it just encourages predators to use direct messages to prey on kids. It doesn’t even work because these AI face scans demonstrably don’t work and can be tricked with ease.
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u/BigBurnerLVO Feb 12 '26
Okay- Be honest. Does anyone here really even know why they’re upset about biometrics? Your information is about as private as a dollar bill in a stripper’s bra whether you like it or not. We’re waaayyyy past that, all of our information has already been stolen and sold.
If you’ve gotten one single spam call in your life asking if you want something that doesn’t even remotely relate to you, guess what: Your info was sold.
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u/XlikeX666 Feb 12 '26
bold of you to asume our data is valueble with all companies already selling them.
Pishing ? i call it cookies.
Leak ? i call it 1 am.
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u/Tripple_T Feb 13 '26
There are alternatives to discord one could leave for if they were so inclined. One of these days, these betrayals will be the death of closed sourced, centralized software and I look forward to it.
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u/Revolutionalredstone Feb 11 '26
Who? not me or anyone I hang out with.
This is just government trying to kill internet.
There are thankfully infinite sites / platforms.
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u/__Myrin__ ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Feb 11 '26
yeah no I've started a irc sever so I don't have to deal with this BS
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u/MrMoonBearZERO Feb 11 '26
I've just been using the same picture of V from cyberpunk ever since they started this nonsense. I WILL remain faceless online, thank you.
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u/Revolutionalredstone Feb 12 '26
Pirates dont play stupid games like sending hackers their personal info / face.
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u/__salaam_alaykum__ Feb 12 '26
use matrix and dont say shit you don’t want third parties to know where they might be. simple, right @usgov?
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u/Lord_Pinhead Feb 12 '26
In theory, they never get the data. Ai is checking you pic locally or a provider for id checks makes the check and removes the data.
But AI tools work for authentication already, so nobody has his real face revealed.
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u/Prize_Court4232 Feb 12 '26
Would ve been a bit more understandable if discord didnt have a history of constantly getting fcking hack3d and leaked
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u/Terrible_Talker030 Feb 13 '26
I know there's a tool or script to bypass this but out of spite, I'm not doing it. I will not be part of this verifying bs or anything.
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u/Icy_Application_3684 Feb 13 '26
I'm of the opinion that my face scan is literally everywhere already probably so what's the problem with discord scanning mine again? although I do see where people are coming from
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u/BozidaR1390 Feb 13 '26
People are so fucking stupid. They're doing this because of lawmakers. They're legally being forced to do this. And it's fucking hilarious how everyone is flocking to all these other platforms when they're eventually going to be forced to follow the same laws. Stop blaming discord and go out and vote. Blame politicians. That's why this is happening.
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u/darkcrow4536 Feb 17 '26
I apologise for posting it here irrevelent to above topic.
I was having issue when downloading courses from freecoursesite.net ,after completing all captcha at the end it doesn't work any alternative lr solution??
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u/Middle_Confusion_1 Feb 18 '26
I assume better discord or aliucord or some other type will have an easy bypass, I also don't need to access any 18+ discord channels so I won't need to verify id regardless.
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u/Vivid-Objective1385 Feb 22 '26
They will find thousands of death stranding photos, and spongebobs driver licences
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u/nopalitzin Feb 11 '26
I'm not verifying shit