and fuck the UK goverment
It is fucking mental that an industry plagued by data harvesting is being asked to harvest more data.
Anyway, I’m now in Belgium according to my VPN.
I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.
Submitted 2 days ago by Abraxas@feddit.uk to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/96820c26-3ba2-402f-b9ef-eaa5ccd08765.webp
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
tal@lemmy.today 2 days ago
That is, I believe, a British law that they’re following for users that appear to be in the UK. Not like they’re going to just disregard the law.
searches
Yeah, the Online Safety Act 2023.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
Probably should be mostly irritated with Parliament.
I expect that using a VPN that terminates in another country will avoid it, though I bet that then you can’t do things like buy Reddit Gold, if that’s still a thing.
tal@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I’d add that if you pick Ireland as the exit country, it will have notable benefits:
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Sites that pick language based on IP will probably do English.
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It probably won’t add much latency.
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Ireland isn’t too bonkers and hopefully won’t have any online laws of their own that become an irritant.
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Because Ireland has a considerably smaller population than the UK, if people in the UK do this at scale for pornography, it will make the Irish statistically look like absolutely indefatigable horndogs, which I think will be pretty funny on visualizations.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Indefatigable horndogs best band name calling dibs now
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
the Irish statistically look like absolutely indefatigable horndogs
What did you think that “wild rover” they keep singing about was? 😉
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
Pornhub stats: Irish +28572%
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madjo@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
Upvote for the verbification of Kagi :)
lividweasel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you don’t mind my hijacking, I’ve seen the term “kagis” used a number of times on Lemmy, possibly only by you but I think also others. Based on the usage, I assumed it was a Latin word to indicate some sort of transition or side-bar, but it seems to just translate to “you are”, which doesn’t make sense in context. Can I ask what it means?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Kati is a new-ish search engine that is popular among Lemmy users. Those users are trying to get it to catch on, and have started using kagi as a verb, the same way people say “let me google that really quick.”
It honestly feels a lot like when Microsoft was trying to get Bing and their phone OS to take off, and started slipping product placement into popular TV shows. There was a brief time period in American TV, where characters had the disgusting line of “Bing it!” Usually while showing the Bing home page on a Microsoft Phone. It was just blatant ham-fisted cringey product placement.
Maven@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
There’s a search engine named Kagi. It’s basically the equivalent of “googles” but for a different search engine.
pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
TheCleric@lemmy.org 6 hours ago
VPN, friend
enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I worked for an early AI project for [large tech giant]. While there, Alexis Ohanian came into the office and talked to my boss about using reddit’s content (your posts and probably private correspondence, too, we got it from every other social network) as corpora for the AI/bot, it wasn’t quite “training data” yet, it was early still in the game, but most likely it has become such.
So yeah, add that to reasons to hate reddit. I have never understood the appeal of what is essentially a for-profit USENET/BBS system, except that you can decorate yourself with flare or whatever it’s called. Why’d people start using it? Why do we give away our collectively-owned technology to these dipshits?
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
People don’t know how to use Usenet.
KiWilly@lemmy.myserv.one 2 hours ago
Guys hi, just looking for some support share, a Fantasy Adventure Story, for all ages and just some entertain with some storyes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVIvQ1wsgg - maybe you are curious
KiWilly@lemmy.myserv.one 3 hours ago
''i agree with you ‘‘Reddit is bad site’’, should do a new one better, btw Guys hi, just looking for some support share, a Fantasy Adventure Story, for all ages : www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVIvQ1wsgg - maybe you are curious
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 minutes ago
Unfortunately they require “proof of liveness”, you have to open your mouth or tilt your head or whatever. There are ways around it but I too have nuked my Reddit account and returned to Lemmy today.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 33 minutes ago
Gross
archchan@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Age verification is insane in it’s entirety and no payment processor, corpo, government, or think-tank has any right to enforce their puritanical views on sex and Orwellian techno-fascist policies on everyone.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Discord is the same now
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
Yeah I hate this. Glad I’m not using it much anymore anyway but damnnnn. I’m convinced they’re rolling this out under the guise of child safety but with the profit motive of data harvesting for their donors
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Basically what FB does, and you already know they use it to sell your data and train their AI
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
Yeah abandoned that platform long before
Dasus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
“Estimate age from selfie”
fake beard sales dramatically increase
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Works in real life too. Grew a beard when i was 17, and never got carded for booze again after that.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
As someone with long hair and a long beard I haven’t been carded in basically 10+ years.
Last weekend I got carded buying a beer with my parents-in-laws. Of course one of the very few times I didn’t have my ID.
Two 65+ people order a beer and then like, oh we’ll get your beer on our tab to make things easier. Bartender “I’ll need to see his ID”
We all couldn’t believe it. I wasn’t upset or anything, it was just kind of absurd feeling. I’ve been drinking for almost 20 years.
It’s one of those situations where common sense should be allowed to be used.
sylvieslayer@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yeah how tf is that supposed work??
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
Are there any women here today?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The stuffed bra has deferred many an ID check.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
In this one instance I’ll give Reddit a pass. This is 100% a fuck the UK government moment
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
In this case I blame the UK government
Screw them and there authoritarian ways
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I blame all the people with “purity” kinks who took it so far they actually created movements and entire societies based around denying the most natural and harmless feelings we have as a species.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
people will not let this become the norm (aka persona hw bombings)
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
They will. People tolerate shitloads. They doubly tolerate it if you tell them to think of the children and point out the only reason they could possibly be offended by this is if they were some kind of pedophile.
If you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear. Now submit to increasing orwellian surveillance.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What I don’t understand is that there are ways to prevent kids from looking at porn that don’t rely on crazy shit like this, even if they do involve some government action. Having to send a picture of your face to a porn provider to view porn is the dumbest possible way to fix this. I suspect the real reason for all of this is people want to effectively ban porn altogether and dumb fucks are letting them.
Psythik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Having to upload your ID anywhere is already sketchy as-is, let alone a porn site. What ever happened to the days of “never use your real name on the internet”? Computer class teachers would drill that into students’ heads all the way through K-12.
When Facebook came along, I thought people were insane for posting things under their full name with their photo attached to it. I thought MySpace was asking for too much personal info as-is! Fast forward ~20 years, and not only are you expected to provide your real identity on several websites, some American states even require it now!
Honestly blows my mind how willingly we gave up our online anonymity without even the slightest bit of pushback. We all just accept it as normal now.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
FB has a very aggressive data mining verification for making an account, they don’t even let you use some obscure emails to registet
tal@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
It’s going to be interesting to see if, after Britons become accustomed to letting websites take pictures of their identity documents, whether there will be interesting fraud attempts made on the British public from other websites who claim that they are conforming to British law.
quokka1@mastodon.au 15 hours ago
@markovs_gun @Abraxas Kids are being banned from all social media here in Australia soon. Including, it seems, YouTube lol.
Expensive and completely unworkable. Reminds me I must spin up that Mastodon instance for my kids and their mates :mastodondance:
It's absolutely not about making sure everyone signs up to DigitalID.
AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Lol yeah I’m not doing that. VPN all the way.
Today I’m french.
Tomorrow, who knows?
The possibilities are endless.
sad_detective_man@leminal.space 2 days ago
Too bad VPN server addresses are on-sight to reddit’s IP blocking strategy for years now. For whatever good internet choice you make, reddit reciprocates with an equally bad one
njm1314@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What’s funny about that is the VPN I use I saw advertised on Reddit. I wonder if these companies know that they ban users for using their products? Well I guess they don’t really don’t care.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Remember when you didn’t even need an email address to sign up for reddit?
If I need to look at that site, my LibRedirect extension sends me to a privacy focused mirror
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
Blocking VPNs from posting or vviewing content too?
athairmor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mullvad has couple of USA exits that don’t get blocked by Reddit. Texas and D.C., I think.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Was using a VPN to watch iPlayer last night and then hopped on reddit and was like “whereintheactualfuck is all the porn‽” Before realizing I had it set to the UK. Blew my mind for a minute
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I went “whereisallmyporn?” When reddit banned it from r/all. I think that was the start of its downfall for me.
oatscoop@midwest.social 1 day ago
I follow some writers on Reddit even after I deleted my account and had the same issue. The worst part is it’s no just porn: it’s anything “NSFW” – even mildly so. Posts that were tagged NSFW as a joke weren’t accessible.
I changed my VPN to another country and Reddit was still asking me to log in and show ID until I cleared my cookies and cache.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They have to comply with local laws. (Fuck them anyway but for entirely different reasons, at least in this case they’re following the law.)
Who do we throw stones at boo mercilessly? Conservatism broadly, the kink-cult that makes everything about sex and denying sex while having the weirdest, worst sex behind the scenes. Making people scared of anything remotely sexual while also championing violence and hate.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dude I was recently visiting Florida. I totally forgot the fascist bullshit laws about porn there, was gobsmacked I couldn’t view pornhub. 5 minutes and a free vpn on my phone and I was happily watching my preferred smut.
It’s so stupid how pointless the laws are, like it’s dumb easy to circumvent them.
Just some real bullshit waste of time. Plus a waste of money for companies that try to comply with the Florida law. Pornhub just decided if you’re in Florida you can’t even use pornhub because they didn’t want to spend the money and time to comply with the stupid ass backwards law.
Katana314@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The world and the internet are so low on trust, I kind of wish there was some entity we trusted.
Some website where you could upload a photo, and people would actually know for sure that all the site is going to do is compare the photo to an ID, verify you’re over a certain age, and send a simple boolean “Yes” to the website that wanted to know if you were over-age. Or, to somehow know that your account is human and not a duplicate.
We could do a lot with that, but as it stands, no person or entity can ever really be trusted with that kind of data; I think most wouldn’t even trust the same governments that issue those IDs.
eletes@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
It’s simple, librarians or even gas station clerks look at your license and they give you a code that you can use idk 10 times for account signups.
No scanning or tracking of who is requesting. Just make it an ID check like buying cigarettes
dirtydocmark@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I’d leave codes all around the city as a middle finger to that stupid system.
Evotech@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The government already knows who you are! No need for a third party
Just give you a fucking oauth login and have websites use that for age checks.
Dasus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
some entity we trusted.
We can trust each other, just takes a little chemical and/or psychological manipulation.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
It’d still be a joke to fool anyways
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 days ago
I wonder if they pay per verification. If so, I wonder how hard it would be to set up a script to just keep submitting new requests a few hundred or thousands of times a day with random photos…
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Random AI photos. That would be funny in theory, but they’re just using AI to check the ages anyway.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 days ago
Sure, it’s not about wasting their time; this says they’re using a 3rd party service to verify, so theoretically they’re paying for that service. It’s about wasting their money.
kautau@lemmy.world 2 days ago
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Fuck most governments
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
genuinely cannot think of a government that doesn’t suck ass
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not all around great but I think New Zealand has a pretty decent government
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The alternative is primitive tribes, I think we can make government work, it’s improved a fuckton in the last several centuries, but it takes a lot more involvement and a lot less apathy than people have been showing about the whole thing lately.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Here’s an interesting point. I just went to an nsfw sub to see if I’d get that prompt, and it gives me two ways to verify - selfie or photo ID. The photo ID has to be “government issued”, and maybe I don’t have one of those. The selfie is a link for a phone, using a QR code and I don’t have a phone that can scan QR codes.
This means that in order to access said sub, I’d need to buy a new phone or wait 30 days or whatever to buy some kind of ID. Even with all the other reasons this sucks, that seems discriminatory.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I don’t have a phone that can scan QR codes.
QR codes are a plain text encoding scheme. If you can screenshot it, you have access to FOSS software that can decode it, and you can paste that URL into your browser.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I know this, but it’s a barrier for anyone who doesn’t.
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Sure, but the point is, they also could’ve posted a simple link, instead of expecting users like the above, to go thru hoops.
DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
Damn. Did you find something else to jerk to my friend ? ( Shit no I don’t want you to jerk to my friend )
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
Can’t even get porn models from civitai in a few hours it’s about to be blocked in the UK too.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anyone try a McLovin ID?
rozodru@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
just use one of the libreddits like safereddit.com or something, never go to actual reddit.
also…I had to turn off my VPN to post here? it woudn’t let me post with my mullvad VPN on…wtf?
bytesonbike@discuss.online 18 hours ago
Rdx is my jam
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Try using old.reddit.com. Literally just replace
wwwwithold, or addoldin front ofreddit.com. This should take you to a version of reddit’s interface which isn’t complete trash and it usually also allows you to bypass the need to login for NSFW content.Iapetus@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
I use rdx.overdevs.com for anything I need on reddit these days, it’s a read only interface that isn’t affiliated with the site and doesn’t track you or advertise anything.
burned_das_brot@feddit.org 21 hours ago
Evotech@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Why dont they just offer some government id api service that Reddit can use? Giving away ur id and shit for everything is insane
Old_Bald_Bloke@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Brit here, I say fuck the UK government
Fucking Red Tories
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Yeah I already left Reddit because (one of the reasons) they wouldnt let you open NSFW content without downloading their app on mobile. Having to submit ID is just way too ridiculous.
Mothra@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Does a vpn bypass it?
trk@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
If any service requires me to send a photo of myself to use it, I ain’t using it.
viking@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
It’s a UK law, you either comply or get banned. Obviously everybody now has a VPN subscription.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Italy made VPNs practically illegal. The UK might soon follow. And surfing the web with a VPN is a painful torrent of capchas.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Facebook does that,
Mwa@thelemmy.club 8 hours ago
Youtube does that