• Obituarykidney@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I used a photo I found online from my local governments department of transport. The name was “Sam S. Sample” with a photo of Mr Bean. So far Reddit, discord, and pornhub have all accepted it.

    I’m in my 30s but fuck giving my government ID to random American corporations with a history of data breaches.

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      13 hours ago

      Years ago when I wanted to delete my Facebook account, they asked for an ID. I used McLovin driving license and it was done. It was the style at that time.

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      2 days ago

      Where I am in the US, for more than 10 years, cashiers have been scanning IDs for age verification of tobacco and alcohol. So even if you pay cash, your identity is tied to those purchases.

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        Even in places they aren’t required to take you id by law, they collect EVERYTHING about you. They know already. They know, you are the product.

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          I’m aware that they collect information about me and perhaps it could be used to figure out who am I. But handing over ID is actually saying who am I, so anything I would post would be tied to my identity.

          That’s still a big difference.

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        For nsfw subreddits/profiles, yes. But literally anyone marking their post as nsfw even to hide a spoiler would prompt the ID check making the subreddit unusable until that post was gone.

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          Interesting, I didn’t observe that. I wonder if this is only enabled for specific regions or they just have me a pass because my accounts is 16 years old.

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        I am in Australia where they have banned under 16s from using social media and porn. In reality it’s just forced adults to upload ID to various websites and kids just use vpns

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      Wish I could’ve used this method to regain OnlyFans access – their verifier took multiple photos of my head for a 3D scan, and the site geolocks its users like Steam, so VPNs wouldn’t work.

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          Yus I’ve been considering it, think OF has gotten a little too corporate… Never a bad idea to jump off a sinking ship

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        their verifier took multiple photos of my head for a 3D scan

        They’re gonna replace their creators with AI-generated content from those scans.

        OnlyScans.