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cm0002 @lemmy.world

3w ago

Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

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How does that help verify age? I can take a selfie of the photo that comes with a frame for God's sake
- I think the combination of two things actually makes this slightly difficult to defeat:
  The app will take a video and look for movement so a static photo won't cut it.
  They apparently flash the screen red green and blue which allows them to distinguish reflective and emissive surfaces. So you can't just point it at a video of an old person because no suitable reflective colour displays exist yet.
  There are a few ways I can think of to circumvent it:
  Write an app that displays a video and simultaneously averages the colour of the front facing camera and applies that as a filter to the video, emulating a reflective display. There would be some lag but I bet it works.
  Use the Android emulator and directly read the screen colour, and use that to filter the camera input (and connect the camera to an AI video). I dunno how detectable the Android emulator is these days though. Probably the age verification apps can detect it fairly easily.
  Find a homeless person and pay them £2 to look at your phone.
This is only going to stop old people looking at porn.
- They'll just dust off the VHSes
It's probably quicker and easier to just use a VPN or tor.
old.reddit.com still works for me. Not that I use those subs.
Proton has free tier VPN if you are getting blocked.
- Doesn’t Reddit block VPNs tho? 🤔 maybe there’s a way round that too? Idk I try not to use it too much tbh, just for porn, you know
  
  They might be able to identify specific known large VPN providers, but as a concept, you technically can't just blanket block all "VPNs".
I wonder if this site would help, at least for a little. They mention tools to prevent the use of AI images at a later date. Or, you know, just stop using reddit and let it die. It used to be good. Used to.
It’s fine. Everyone should leave Reddit anyway. It’s all ads and bots now
Fuuuuck. Thaaat. Fuck all of that, fuck it with a rusty spiked dildo, fuck--that--.
- If I send you a selfie ...can I watch?
A government shouldn't enforce its citizens to give their private data to private companies. Bullocks.
On the bright side, may reddit starve to death through regulation.
lol. lmao, even.

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