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Twitch is requiring new affiliates to give their government ID and a separate photo to Persona (bsky.app)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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[–] -1 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted.

I have to give my ID to buy website hosting. I have to give it to open a bank. I have to provide it for setting up a e-commerce store.

Like, what privacy are you expecting when money is exchanging hands between a major company and a person - one that is required to track all those details and hand them to their government?

You expecting Twitch to pay you in crypto?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Who is asking you to provide ID to purchase or rent a web hosting server?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Ionos. AWS. And now Hetzer (which I just did yesterday)?

    Am I on a list or something because I'm being downvoted for sharing what I have to do to buy web services.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    What ID are you providing for web hosting? Literally never done this, just payables info.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I can't remember the hosts name, but I did get asked to send my DL to a hosting service. I did a free trial and tried to sign up, at the end I was asked to send a picture of my DL. I told them I would find a host that knew what they were doing, and deleted my account. This was probably five or six years ago, too. I do agree though, no other host has tried to pull this on me.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I needed my driver's license to prove that I was who I said I was with my credit card with ionos.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Crazy. I had Hetzner, Vultr, Linode, Rackspace (back in the day when they did that), never had to prove my identity.

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