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Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

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Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago

Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform.

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Discord is still a privacy nightmare regardless, but at least they won’t require your ID by default.
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  https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1759163/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids
  
  Already leaked 70k IDs

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