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Steam users in the UK will need a credit card to access “mature content” games

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Skavau@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theverge.com/news/767980/steam-uk-age-vertification-online-safety-act-credit-card-mature-games

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  • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tbh I dont hate this. Its already a company I trust with this information so no new info is required.

    Where it gets sticky for me is that providing private info to an Internet company is not the same as flashing an id card at the store as they can keep it forever.

    That and the likes of reddit (for example not singling them out) are offloading this task to companies that have no gdpr compliance.

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It's more that people who don't want a credit card are screwed from this.

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      • mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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      • ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Indeed.

        Reminds me of the Android Market Play Store and not being able to use PayPal back yonder and having to use a throwaway top-up, debit card if you wanted to buy apps. Ewww.

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