YES!

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉

Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!

IT WORKS! ✊🔒

https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/

Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.

But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.

This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.

Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Discord #PrivacyWin

[wolfinpdx@pdx.social]

@Em0nM4stodon

Too late. I just got an email that my account was deleted. They lost me. Which is fine. Wasn't really using Discord anymore.

[sar@social.elderlogs.net]

@Em0nM4stodon

Hit their bottom pockets and the "necessary thing" quickly becomes "optional".

Amazing what bleeding money and an impending IPO will do.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@wolfinpdx Still a privacy win for you too! 👍 There are much better platforms than Discord around, even without accounting for age verification.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@sar

[sar@social.elderlogs.net]

@Em0nM4stodon

My 9yr sub ran out yesterday, and I don't think I'll ever renew it. They've lost my trust already.

[terminaltilt@climatejustice.social]

@Em0nM4stodon

This is what happens when you hit them where it hurts, in the nu... I mean wallet. That is the only way they listen. Discord has a long ways to go before it is redeemed, but this is a win for the good guys!

[werringworlds@merveilles.town]

@Em0nM4stodon All my friends moved to Signal. I assume Discord is just gonna pull a that thing most companies do and wait til they think everyone has forgotten before repeating their b.s.

[garretpolk@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Em0nM4stodon "Age Assurance" Oh, so that's the new euphemism for spying.

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Em0nM4stodon Android next!

[siguza@infosec.space]

@Em0nM4stodon this buys us time, but they will try again. Probably split it into smaller steps to reduce the pushback or smth.

And if they do an IPO and sell, then... all bets are off anyway. Enshittification will take them one way or another.

[joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Em0nM4stodon They're still planning to rolll this out so I would push for alternatives in the meantime.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@Em0nM4stodon it helps also that all these verification companies seem to be run by clueless muppets.

[sean@chaos.social]

@Em0nM4stodon too late

[deadinside@but.still.drinkin.coffee]

@Em0nM4stodon If someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.

[mikal@sfba.social]

@Em0nM4stodon

Even though I rarely used it, I like to think that I helped in my tiny little middle finger way.

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@Em0nM4stodon And also, still leave the platform. Make an example of it.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@Em0nM4stodon Until they explicitly say they're scrapping ID/face verification of age for everyone, I say we keep the fire under their asses going. Tell the Stoat and Matrix and Mattermost and all the other platforms that people are going to that they should use this time to prepare for the second influx that'll come in 3-6 months when Discord does the thing they still plan on doing. Those who have already swapped should keep at it. If Discord wants to die on this hill, let them.

[edited to fix a typo and make a sentence less awkward]

[christoff@yem.bouncingaroundtheroom.online]

@disorderlyf @Em0nM4stodon at what point do you walk away, enough is enough? Folks are so dang conditioned to just take whatever these companies dish out and just roll with the inconveniences for the sake of keeping the status quo.

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@siguza @Em0nM4stodon Hopefully, "time" is an ingredient we can use well.