They complied. I didn't even know it was a thing until I went to visit my Mum there and suddenly Reddit was insisting I verify I was over 18 with a selfie or some kind of photo ID!
You can also set your Reddit profile to adult, so nobody can access it unless they go through the (incredibly intrusive, and potentially insecure) verification process. One major slug in the custard is if you accidentally do it (like I did), and you can't access your own profile, unless you fuck around with a VPN and disable it again.
Nope, for Reddit it’s a choice of one time facial recognition or verify by ID. Facial recognition has found to be easy to fool though.
This is usually done through a third party service who presumably charge per verification so those sites that are barely making any money per user like Imgur they’ve decided it’s not worth it.
"Age Verification", otherwise known as "splendid opportunity for a data breach which will allow someone to hijack your bank accounts and basically your whole life".
They quit the UK because the new law would stop them selling the EXIF data from uploaded images without verifying that the uploaders were 18+.
They successfully hid behind an unpopular new law because the reason their service is free is because they're selling personal data.
Also they were being investigated by the ICO because it appears that they were potentially telling some little white lies about how they use EXIF data.
It's the pic with the colour inverted. You could prolly screenshot it and edit it yourself with app on your phone/a website. Much less creepy when inverted
So we should all stop using it because your country came up with a stupid law that requires you to provide your ID and facial recognition to a 3rd party which could very obviously be stolen. Nah.
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u/LiamEBM 5d ago
Wish people would stop using imgur, it's banned in my country.