• DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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    11 days ago

    I mean, fuck Spotify and all that, but this one is really the UK government’s doing.

    And soon, this shit will come to every country. They’re all drafting laws to mandate real age verification for adult content. The UK is just the first to implement it.

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      10 days ago

      I mean, fuck it. At this point we might as well put our passport numbers in the HTTP headers.

      Coming to a pop up near you. If they even bother to ask any more.

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        10 days ago

        I think there are going to be a whole lot of phishing and blackmail scams in the future, preying on the stupid computer illiterate masses putting in their personal information into fake “age verifiers” to access porn or other adult content.

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          10 days ago

          It’s a good thing it’s so easy to tell them from the “trustworthy” ones…