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Anyone know the best way to fool these age verification tools? I've got some Discord servers with channels that are marked as NSFW mainly out of an abundance of caution, despite mainly just being open to rude language. And others where it's just slightly spicy memes.
I am old enough, I just don't want to give my real face or ID to Discord or their chosen third parties. I don't trust them. Have tried pointing OBS at videos of people staring straight at the screen, but those don't quite seem to work.
DM the mods to fix channels. If they refuse, you'll have to leave. Don't give Discord any info. A community I was in moved to an alternative and it's still there, right after Discord announced it would implement ID registrations.
That's the idea. I'm hoping people have an idea of some method to bypass it that actually works. Maybe a particular video or game that still works well. Giving them useless data.
Fwiw, they don't do the age verification themselves. They contract it out to a third party. And as much as I trust neither entity very far, I do trust that the third party probably isn't handing over that data to Discord. I'm more worried about the third-party being hacked/leaking data, which has already happened.