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- Eggyhead@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
I’m pretty sure my account itself is old enough to drink at this point.
6 hoursSo when they say age verification, do they mean “show us your ID”, or “enter your birthdate”?
- REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish5 hours
“enter your birthdate”
Technically would not that be age confirmation, not verification?
The funny thing is I’ve had the same PSN account since the PS3, and it’s old enough to vote.
Platforms should always have that be the first check before falling back to multiple other data sources.
- absquatulate@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
And miss grabbing that juicy data of yours? Thats like leaving money on the table! Think of the shareholders, man.
- Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish6 hours
Do people really put their date of birth in those things? I just scroll the year until I’m clearly past 18 years and that’s when I’m born, January first 19-whogivesafuck. Quite possibly the best date to be born on.
What’re you going to do when Steam inevitably does this?
I’ll laugh when it happens, given my Steam account is almost 23 years old.
- I_Jedi@lemmy.todayEnglish4 hours
If Steam becomes nonviable, then I will:
- Download my backlog and look into cracking their reliance on Steam, if any.
- Buy stuff on JAST, GOG, itch io, DLSite. Maybe DMM, Patreon, and Epic Games Store if I’m desperate.
- Otherwise, well, you know how I’ll get those games.
- lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 hours
Steam is turning into a sour grape for me - I complied with their restrictive and ancient method of age verification for UK accounts but I kind of want to migrate off them (they also charge high fees for devs, make it ridiculously difficult for new devs to exist, can singlehandedly destroy a studio and are very much monopolising the PC games industry so there’s also ethics) - in favour of GOG. At least with them you own your games, and can (shock horror) even choose whether or not to update and patch that way to glitch out of the map, or duplicate those orbs for currency, or anything else that doesnt comply with the specific way you’re allowed to play with the world they built.
Damn, sorry, I should file this away into my ‘rants’ folder
- lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 hours
Xbox has had this for quite a while now (although I haven’t checked if that’s UK exclusive)
Sony really eager to kill off communication on their system. Fucking bootlickers.
- Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
Clarification for those of you who are also using an adblocker and get denied access to the site, this seems to be in the UK only and is yet another result of their age verification tear they’ve been on.
- lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 hours
I’m using an adblocker and get in just fine, may be random or it may be the js blockers I’ve implemented. Here’s my list of lists in case:
- AdAway Default Blocklist
- Peter Lowe’s Blocklist
- OISD Blocklist Big
- uBlock₀ filters – Badware risks
- HaGeZi’s Ultimate Blocklist
- AdGuard DNS filter
- Phishing URL Blocklist (PhishTank and OpenPhish)
- Perflyst and Dandelion Sprout’s Smart-TV Blocklist
- Phishing Army
- HaGeZi’s Windows/Office Tracker Blocklist
- Malicious URL Blocklist (URLHaus)
- EasyList Cookie Blocker
- No Google (disabled for now)
Note for any NordVPN users, their URIs are blocked by HaGeZi. Same list temporarily had Tidal’s URIs blocked as well but it seems to have been fixed.
not what the article says, the article specifically says:
The age-verification process will be implemented globally,
