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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.
@Em0nM4stodon I think regardless of this change people should leave the platform. I deleted my account and will be testing out platforms like Fluxer
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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.
@Em0nM4stodon Its a small win. I've been trying to get my friends to move over to Matrix, but its been an uphill battle. I also really hated the "hello fellow privacy enthusiasts" tone of the CTO's blog post.
Not sure if its been brought up, but using the wayback machine it looks like Discord only listed 2 new roles, a privacy engineer and privacy counsel in the past 2 weeks.
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Even though I rarely used it, I like to think that I helped in my tiny little middle finger way.
@Mikal @Em0nM4stodon Nice! I just got my confirmation as well.
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@Em0nM4stodon "Age Assurance" Oh, so that's the new euphemism for spying.
@garretpolk @Em0nM4stodon Why not just go ahead and add it to the gas station apps while we're at it?
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@garretpolk @Em0nM4stodon Why not just go ahead and add it to the gas station apps while we're at it?
@coreysnipes @Em0nM4stodon Holy shit. 7-Eleven, Inc.
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@werringworlds @Em0nM4stodon they even admitted they'll do it in their blog post
We’re delaying our global rollout to the second half of 2026.
@solonovamax @Em0nM4stodon 😮💨Wow... I'd say I'm surprised but it just seemed inevitable...
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@solonovamax @Em0nM4stodon 😮💨Wow... I'd say I'm surprised but it just seemed inevitable...
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@solonovamax @nazokiyoubinbou @Em0nM4stodon Of course, if Discord loses all their userbase like Myspace did, that will warn other platforms not to try this. They try again in six months and get finished off, this will be a very powerful lesson,
Punish one, instruct a hundred.
This outcome would warn commerical platforms that their business model is finished if they do age verification, and since there will be nothing to pay server bills they may as well shut down instead.
That in turn will force them to fight, and put an end to this just like the defeat of SOPA.
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@garretpolk @Em0nM4stodon Why not just go ahead and add it to the gas station apps while we're at it?
@coreysnipes @garretpolk @Em0nM4stodon So far that shit at Speedway is presumably for cigarettes, lottery, and yes, alcohol sold at gas stations in some states.
If one chain expands it to cash purchases of gasoline, their competitors will clean up. There is no push for a law to require showing a drivers license to buy gasoline, possibly because it is also used in things like gas mowers.
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@Em0nM4stodon it's going to keep happening for this and other platforms if people keep voting for the politicians who are pushing for this kind of surveillance. Discord is only doing this to get ahead of all the new laws that require it.
@drikanis @Em0nM4stodon The fact remains that compliance in advance is still compliance in advance.
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@Em0nM4stodon Its a small win. I've been trying to get my friends to move over to Matrix, but its been an uphill battle. I also really hated the "hello fellow privacy enthusiasts" tone of the CTO's blog post.
Not sure if its been brought up, but using the wayback machine it looks like Discord only listed 2 new roles, a privacy engineer and privacy counsel in the past 2 weeks.
@SwiftVoltas @Em0nM4stodon It's more than an uphill battle. The UX in all matrix clients is basically a non-starter for anyone I know IRL. Element especially, but that's the only one with calls. The UI is cluttered with data the average user doesn't understand, and it's surprisingly easy to break things.
I don't think it's a battle I'm capable of winning until the UX improves significantly. The security doesn't even factor in for people I know IRL. I just have to accept what they will tolerate.
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@Em0nM4stodon I agree 100%. Perfection is the enemy of progress
Sorry, I had a quick, knee jerk reaction. Wasn’t meant as a slight to you
9to5Mac’s misleading headline irked me and I’ve been having frustrating conversations with friends who don’t see the problem with all of this, and/or don’t have all the facts before making judgments. It has me feeling even more pessimistic than usual :/
@phillip @Em0nM4stodon been there. Keep up the good fight.
I can't even get the people I know IRL to understand that having their ID leak via a contractor data breach onto the open web (which already happened!) would increase their risk of identity theft. Let alone whatever else these companies may do with the data.
Nor can I seem to make them understand their refusal to care about their privacy reduces my ability to protect my own identity online.
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@phillip @Em0nM4stodon been there. Keep up the good fight.
I can't even get the people I know IRL to understand that having their ID leak via a contractor data breach onto the open web (which already happened!) would increase their risk of identity theft. Let alone whatever else these companies may do with the data.
Nor can I seem to make them understand their refusal to care about their privacy reduces my ability to protect my own identity online.
@theeclecticdyslexic @Em0nM4stodon it’s so frustrating! Especially when they’re in the bell curve of knowing enough to think they know everything
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@theeclecticdyslexic @Em0nM4stodon it’s so frustrating! Especially when they’re in the bell curve of knowing enough to think they know everything
@phillip @Em0nM4stodon I know one person in particular that is stuck in an endless ideological trap of "all technology is neutral, it will be fine".
The amount of screaming I want to do...
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@Em0nM4stodon That's awesome, but I have a feeling that once they recover their users back again they'll roll out Age Ver again
@micdan @Em0nM4stodon yeah this. With some bells and whistles, of course. They currently make it about the verification company not about the verification itself. That'll become a Blue is the new Red situation.
Ah well, I'm out 🤘
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