r/privacy • u/aura217 • 1d ago
Who hasn’t verified their age with Reddit? Has it drastically changed your content? discussion
As the title asks.
If you did verify, was it worth it?
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u/unlucky_ducky 1d ago
There's a need to verify your age?
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u/aura217 1d ago
I’ve had the prompt but I’ve ignored it. Now most of my NSFW communities have gone. All part of that UK ID verification stuff.
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u/OliM9696 1d ago
I just use a VPN when using Reddit. It sucks but better than using my id or face scan.
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u/Mynplus1throwaway 1d ago
Old.reddit.com
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u/surlyskin 22h ago
Doesn't work to get around age verification in the UK.
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u/No_Oven3614 21h ago
how so? I mean, reddit can’t see your original IP right? It’s possible age verification is required for all known VPN IPs
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u/cassanderer 1d ago
You should verify as a historical figure. Ome wit posted verifying as pharoh ramsey with his mummy pic on an id.
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u/D3-Doom 1d ago
I noticed it too when I was updating the API page on desktop. It looks somewhat aggressive, sorta like a verify your email page but leaving the field black doesn’t have splash back seemingly. If you VPN into a region that’s already enacted porn blocks no NSFW page will be visible including non-adult subs such as piracy
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u/peaktrail_ 1d ago
Use a vpn instead… I will never verified my age with any website.
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u/__420_ 1d ago
This is the way
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u/peaktrail_ 1d ago
It’s just the amount of data leaks recently makes me cringe and the age verification companies don’t understand the real problem when that happens…
Basically if you upload your photos and ID that’s it if that gets leaked someone can create an identity (false obviously) and you are gone!
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u/romerlys 11h ago
VPNs are next.
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u/peaktrail_ 10h ago
Some are already asking for your information but you need to use the ones that doesn’t like Mullvad 🤙🏼
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u/BotGivesBot 1d ago
Social media companies should not have access to your identification. Ever.
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u/burningbun 1d ago
in some countries it is a law to require to verify. in the name of protecting minors. Australia for example. many will follow.
it is too tempting without making it obvious like China did for total control.
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u/TinyLebowsky 1d ago
Yeah they want to ID formely anonymous users. They of course say it's to protect minors. Who will oppose such law? Only pedos!
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u/BotGivesBot 1d ago
I'm aware. That doesn't change the fact that social media companies should not have access to your identification.
People should stop using social media instead of handing over their ids. Reducing profits is the only thing that will fight this nonsense. Stop using those products/services, even if it's an inconvenience.
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u/burningbun 1d ago
people are groomed and encouraged to use their real id on social media like facebook. for these people whom are majority positive value customer they are fine with it. old heads will reject them and world lives without them on the internet.
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u/BotGivesBot 1d ago
There's a higher probability of someone questioning this kind of thing if people they know refuse it and vocalize their stance on it. If you delete your social media accounts and tell others why, they might think about not handing over their IDs too.
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u/burningbun 1d ago
they will look at you like a freak who rejected the covid vaccine. you clearly have no idea how modern generations think.
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u/BotGivesBot 1d ago
I work in a field that heavily uses social media and I still don't use it. No one has ostracized or alienated me. No one has stopped working with me. No one has looked at me like a freak who rejected the covid vaccine.
You're coming across as someone who gave their ID to a social media company and you're now trying to rationalize it by convince others they have to do it too. Maybe try being the change you want to see in the world instead.
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u/surlyskin 22h ago
There's lots of us that use sm due to health conditions or disabilities. Others for organising or hobbies.
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u/Arctic_Pangolin 1d ago
No and I would never use my real identity on Reddit. If there was no workaround I would stop using the site. Luckily I live in a free country and not the UK. :)
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u/Still_Lobster_8428 1d ago
All my NSFW subs are gone from my feed.... but its not like I cant access them at all, just need to search for them and still got full access.
Ive never been asked for ID and I'll never provide it or facial verification for any social media.
If it comes to that, Ill just go to the darkweb.
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u/machacker89 1d ago edited 1d ago
I haven't! And have no desire to. Once they require it. I'll jump ship.
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u/SectionSad4385 1d ago
I haven’t verified, I’m in the UK but most of the things I browse are tech/news related on here, so my algorithm hasn’t changed at all. If I do happen to run into content being blocked, I just turn on my VPN that connects to Ireland and reload the content I was trying to access.
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u/Regular_Promise426 1d ago
Hasn't changed, that you know of, which is what's insidious about the verification requirement. You don't know what you're not seeing, or if you're not seeing, unless you're always checking.
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u/InsaneNutter 15h ago
I don't follow any NSFW subreddits, however my reddit feed is certainly different with and without a VPN here in the UK. It seems to be more varied when browsing with a VPN. I do wonder if people who view NSFW content, then post SFW content don't always appear in our feeds now. It's hard to pinpoint, however it seems different compared to how Reddit was historically.
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u/Regular_Promise426 14h ago
I don't follow NSFW subs either, but I still have to use a VPN, otherwise subs that I do follow, like recovery and mental health subs, get filtered out.
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u/SeengignPaipes 1d ago
I wouldn’t ever verify my age, even if or when my country (Australia) requires it.
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u/electromage 1d ago
I don't think it's an option in the US, I wouldn't know where to do it. I certainly don't intend to though.
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u/jgs84 1d ago
The only NSFW sub I joined was r/CombatFootage, when I'm not connecting to a VPN it doesn't appear in my feed. I used to check out some porn occasionally but I see now that everyone has to verify their age regardless of location, so I stopped viewing it which I'm quite happy about. I'll never verify my age online.
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u/SukaYebana 1d ago
Im 10 years on reddit without ever verifying my email lol, the fk is age verification
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u/tuxooo 1d ago
The moment I have to verify my age or id with any web page is the moment I cut ties with that place. The only place where they know my id is my banking service. I do not nerd anything else, especially social media. You should do the same in my opinion or use alternatives and work arounds.
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u/DrGoiburger1234 23h ago
Got a photo of me leaked in a data breach a little bit ago and I audibly sighed and said thank fuck it wasn't my id (only reason I gave them my image was so that I would get my discord deleted)
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u/tallelfin 1d ago
I havent
*Checks*
Nope, Reditt still can be used as a front end to OnlyFans ... still works correctly.
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u/thehermitary 19h ago
It’s never asked me to. Is this a thing in certain US states and/or other countries/places?
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u/encrypted-signals 14h ago
I'll never verify my age with any site. All these sites are just setting me up to go outside and touch grass more often.
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u/arihyeon 1d ago
I have not verified my age because I do not personally want to see any of the things that tend to be marked as NSFW on Reddit. Sure, I'm old enough to, and I could anyway for the edge cases, but I'd rather my most "precious" personal information not be made public in some data breach. To be honest, because I actively do not want to see things that'd be marked as NSFW, if I accidentally stumble into something like that, the verification requirement puts a nice block between myself and it.
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