Calling marketplace, which requires a login and a scan of your face and probably a blood sample these days, barebones is hilarious. Have you never used Craigslist? It accomplishes the exact same thing and is actually barebones.

I get dogpiled for saying it, but craigslist was and is fine, and there’s no reason to move off of it

You've given more away to Facebook. If Facebook hasn't asked for photo ID it's because its system is confidant it knows who you really are. Other people will be asked for photo ID when signing up for a Facebook account.

I am an old fart and still find pretty solid deals on craigslist.

I didn't need any form of ID, I post "anonymously". I use Firefox's containers feature, I use a fake name and I strictly only use marketplace and messenger.

I'm open to another suggestion regarding buying and selling used goods. As previously stated, I don't see a viable alternative. All the good stuff is on Marketplace. Very few bother to sell outside of that platform anymore, and few look at other platforms.

It's always interesting to me when I run into a holier-than-thou type like this. They're typing out their critiques on a device that was either manufactured using slave labor or assembled from parts using slave labor, but everyone else is the bad guy.

Sometimes bad things have a good use case here and there, and yes it is unfortunate. A good example is steroids, which can be abused but also used to strengthen one's immune system and fight off an infection. At the end of the day, the question for me is whether or not my use outweighs the bad of having an account, and I think keeping good things out of a landfill is worth it. That is literally all I use it for.

For now, we're stuck with some of these bad things as part of the ecosystem we live in.