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Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default "teen-appropriate" experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Anyone want to script through the signup process and feed the damn thing a bunch of AI generated faces?

Typically when a signup page is difficult to automate, you can use a library meant for automated testing within a browser—like Selenium. Also, disposable emails services come in handy—like mailsac. If they block all the disposable email services, you can also use your iCloud+ custom email domain (if you have it) with the Allow All Incoming Messages setting turned on—then you use randomly generated user handles for each signup. A better way would be Gmail accounts so that they blend in more, but I’m not sure how to script through Gmail signup when they often require a phone number verification step.

Not sure about the easiest way to recycle your IP, in case they monitor signups that way too. I’m sure there’s a way to overcome that too via VPN.

If 2% of Discord users did this 50 times, that would make half of Discords user profiles and face recognition data completely fake.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

They plan on using an AI to read all your conversations as well. You wabt that?

Just quit. Why bother trying to stay?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

i used to be quite proficient at using selenium.

though IIRC they require phone numbers for the sign up process now?