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Finally it seems the end of Reddit is near.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, fuck all that.

Guess we're transitioning into a VPN only future.

We have the opportunity to head into a utopic or dystopic future and we're absolutely choosing the dystopic one.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They'll criminalize personal VPN users for non-work purposes, next.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Work VPN doesn't look any different to any other VPN to the people tapping the lines.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A VPN future? Haha. Not if they don't want to. There are many ways to prevent VPN from operating when you're a government.

You can just plain ban encryption, which sounds really crazy, but yeah, they're trying to.

You can just say "it's illegal to use a VPN". It'll technically still work, but if there's a trace of trafic from your house to a known VPN endpoint, you're it! Great!

They can force custom proprietary spying software on your devices. Sounds equally crazy as the thing above, right? But rest assured they're ALSO trying to do that. Multiple times, even. And in some places… they did. Of course, nothing forces you to have such software on your device. Especially if your devices are not supported; it also turns into a "you have to buy this or that big name device, everything else's de-facto illegal! Fuck you, we're the government!". And if you get caught for whatever, and your phone, PC, or anything isn't "compliant"? Bam. Guilty.

Plenty of option. All of them completely stupid and would weaken both privacy, individuals, and governments at large. It never stopped legislation from being pushed forward.

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 week ago (18 children)

If the UK is going to require adult verification it should be built into your internet contract. Yeah, I'm an adult. I'm paying my bills, of course I'm a fucking adult. I over pay for this garbage internet.

Uploading a selfie? The ai is going to determine if you're over 18? Can the ai determine if the selfie is also ai?

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's some serious BS. They are forcing you to hand over and trust Reddit with your personal information, yet I wouldn't trust them if my life depended on it.

At the very least, someone in charge of this legisltion should learn OAuth2 and force the sites they want to comply by only let those OAuth2 accounts access their adult content. If I was in the UK, I'd just pay for a VPN over giving my photo to Reddit. That site is a lobby brigade hellhole whose "we know your dark secrets, we know everything" owner is also probably trading your account details on the side.

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[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I guess i am going to be regularly updating the metadata on my most recent selfie.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Oh dear. What a dreadful business.

Anyway, this is mine.

[–] jjmoldy@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (8 children)

POV: You're the intern tasked with reviewing the selfies.

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[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This whole thing is a security disaster waiting to happen.

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Oops, our password was ‘Reddit’ and we’ve had a leak” in coming.

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[–] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 1 week ago (8 children)

What's to stop uploading a random picture of a person? Or even an AI generated person? I get what they're trying to do, but seems like legislative theater more than anything.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I've once attempted to open a bank account where they wanted video proof, and expected me to say a randomly assigned phrase, to solve the issue you mention.

I didn't do it. Fucking KYC is BS.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Banks are highly regulated so it is not surprising that they would be strict in this, reddit on the other hand has no business doing it.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

has no business doing it.

Reddit is doing this as a response to regulation as well (1). Governments all around europe (2) are turning communications into a highly regulated environment ("for the children"), because they're afraid of people communicating and having thoughts. UK is just one of the early adaptors.

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

u/spez was the lead moderator of r/jailbait, and when he was caught, he got rid of mod transparency. Ghilisaine Maxwell was likely a l lead moderator of news Reddits as well (u/MaxwellHill). Reddit has always been compromised.

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lmao when the "anonymous" online forum requires de-anonymizing, I want to hope everyone leaves

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Meh, just upload a dick pic.

Greedy little pigboy.

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[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They better be NSFW selfies.

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I'm a UK citizen, fuck everything about this law. I'm so sick of the current authoritarian trend amongst some western countries. The UK is one of the worst offenders.

It's not even about protecting kids. It's about control and appeasing puritanical elements in society. We're the 6th richest economy in the world and we can't even offer some of the poorest kids food security. But at least they can't see a pair of tits on Reddit.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 30 points 1 week ago (9 children)

There's a bunch of AI face generating pictures. I wonder if you can just use those. Or maybe this is just to create a new law to arrest people of uploading fake pictures...

https://thispersonnotexist.org/

https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

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[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Just upload a picture of any politician who voted for this.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We thought the same thing about Netflix with the sharing password bans. Yet they retained more profit than ever the next year.

Who's to say if this is what will make Reddit end, or did they actually just got more successful after the end of 3rd party apps compared to the declaration of so many users back then?

Digital personal verification is just going to become a fact of life in the future for everyone born after about 2012. They will use online ID cards, biometrics, location metadata that is constantly uploaded by our devices, maybe even implanted RFID encrypted chips for account verification. Passwords are becoming outdated and outmoded for security as we speak here. 2FA is the minimum security for online today but that may soon become outmoded as well.

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[–] berno@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Fuck Reddit fuck spez

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Kier Starmer voice: “We are an island, of wankers”

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Keeping the age verifier seperate from the content host is good. Destroying the files used for verification is good. On paper it's not too a bad system for age verification, but it really hinges on if you can trust them. Given the track record of basically almost every company and government ever...

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago
[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's see how much VPN subscription count will go up

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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is the facebook "show a video of your face" bs all over again. glad i don't have an account on either site bc not only is it a huge privacy concern, you know they store all that data and are going to sell it and/or use it to train AI models

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sending a dick pick. Now it's whatever is in front of these to make a though decision.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just post on them. Two birds with one stone.

But if you do comply, double down by ringing Kier Starmer up and letting him (and your local MP) know what you've been wanking off to, since he's so fucking interested. He could have blocked this, but he let it run because he also agrees with it.

I wonder if there's a browser addon to make an itemised list of all the videos and camgirls and then I can send it to him on a regular basis. It should log when you close the browser window so it knows when you've "finished" so to speak. Maybe I could highlight those videos in bold for him, so he can skip right to the good ones.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why would anyone use that shit after this?

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By "that shit", do you mean every website/app that may contain age-restricted (not just sexual) content? Because that's what comes into force in the UK next week.

I've been dreading this for decades. 🤬

It's not just Reddit, nor are they the first to roll it out early.

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