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mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This is an US-based news article. They don’t know the difference between credit and debit cards. Debit cards will work, too. (As per this article.) And you basically get them thrown at you with any bank account.

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Skavau@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Update: Debits do not work. You need a credit card.

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- mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Huh, you’re right. Just checked my account again and I now see this message:
  
  Under the UK Online Safety Act, Valve is required to verify that you are 18 or older before accessing mature sexual content. If you wish to do so, please add a valid UK credit card to your account and afterwards update the Mature Content Preferences.
  
  That wasn’t there a few hours ago.
  
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  - Skavau@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah, I think this is pretty poor from Steam. Especially if this expands in scope beyond the pornslop games to include stuff on the level of Cyberpunk or Baldurs Gate - which I assume it would have to per OSAs standards.
    
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Skavau@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/age-assurance

Which seems against OSA guidance

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