This is old news. It didn't happen a second time.
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We told you this would happen. We told you this would be the result of "age verification". As usual, you fucking didn't listen.
I hope Discord is sued into receivership over this.
Something tells me they will not face any consequences.
that's just a feeling, right? there's no prior experience that could trigger that, right? *nudge, nudge. wink, wink.*
Anyway, miraculously i haven't been hit with the age-wall yet, bur when i do, Discord will lose a user.
Nothing came of this.
This article is dated "9 October 2025" which would make it almost a year old.
Yeah, dates in submission links would be great. Wonder if it can be automated so when I submit a URL, lemmy fetches the creation date while it's fetching the headline.
If the site metadata is made to contain fhe date then yeah, but otherwise I don't think theres a way to get the date of the html file from its url...?
If not, then there isn't any standardized publication date format which allows us to automate retrieval.
A lot of them use this in the HTML:
<meta property="article:post_date" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36+0100">
<meta property="article:post_modified" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02+0100">
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36Z">
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02Z">
I’ve scripted a fair bit of scraping in the past just by looking for those kinds of entries. But only focussed on a few dozen websites so I can’t say how common it is.
If the fetching function can validate the data it should be able to continue without a date if needed.
I thought that they were deleting the photos immediately after verification. They didn't??? Why aren't these companies being investigated and punished?
Because money. We'll soon have to take things into our own hands, as the establishment only protects itself, and not us plebs.
This is from the leak last year. What leaked was pictures uploaded to their ticket system to appeal the result of a failed verification.
...so you are saying their verification process is so broken that hundreds of thousands of people had to appeal a false reading. Broken and insecure, what a look.
Why? For example, XING just got sold and with it all personal information. This is why they didn't.
I'm glad you added from 2025 there because otherwise it would have been super deceptive.
I definitely thought it happened again, and I was gonna be like, well that was fast. Like we all know it's going to happen again, but that would have been extremely fast.
This article is a year old, but relevant because Discord started doing the verifications again. The plan was never canceled, just delayed to a later news cycle. And this will absolutely happen again because there are no consequences.
Who could've seen that coming?
Wao, again? The reasons why people keep using these bullshit services really make my mind spin. This is no different than people choosing to stay in a relationship with an abusing partner.
Edit: I just saw this is from last year's leak. Still, the likeness remains.
This is no different than people choosing to stay in a relationship with an abusing partner.
I say that about Windows users who jump through hoops to try to disable the spying and they get mad at me, LOL.
Storing raw photos feels like storing plaintext passwords. Hackers have access to your password and your photo now.
As far as discord is concerned, I’m a proud citizen of Albania now. Much like Eric Adams.
Wow, and now they want to relay your info through 2 or 3 parties for verications.
May? May? Just say that IDs where leaked. We all know nowdays that for sure are leaked.
So so so so so misleading to post this when this will be interpreted as an event from 2026. Post should be removed IMO.
There's a 2025 in the title
I hope I never gave them that. I had Nitro for a bit, but I don't think I would have ever willingly gave them that.

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