If all you use Discord for is chatting with 3 people, these changes will have zero impact on you and your daily usage. You wont ever see an ID prompt.
replyIt will impact me since I've decided to go with plan C ahead of time. Hard to keep track of everything every company does, but I'd rather not use a service that is unnecessarily aggregating facial scans + IDs of its users.
replyYou don't have to make excuses for corporate decisions that damage user privacy.
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replyWhat am I missing? According to this, the only difference is you get a warning popup when someone new DMs you, right? And they can't send you images flagged as porn?
replyHow does this impact you in any way?
I'm generally opposed to services unnecessarily wanting IDs, content filtering for direct messages from my contacts, unwanted popups (it's already annoying when my friends send me a link to a site I haven't visited from discord before and it "warns" me and you cannot disable this entirely useless popups), and things generally becoming worse.
replyA lot of these things are normalized already, but requiring IDs is not and I don't want to see it become normalized.
Ultimately, they are free to do what they like (or perhaps being unnecessarily pressured by various govts) and I am free to leave the service.
They're saying there's a very good chance that, in your use case, you still won't be asked to provide ID.
replyThis is correct. I'm a UK Discord user, so I've been subject to these requirements for ~6 months now. It's basically nothing - I'm in near 50 "servers", of them all I only really can think of one channel in one of them that is flagged "nsfw" and thus blocked to me as I never ID'd myself.
replyIf you don't use Discord as a source of "nsfw" content you can comfortably ignore these requirements. I do realize there are some communities that may fare a lot worse than my gaming / software dev interests, and may be falsely claimed "nsfw" just for their existence. Which yeah, that absolutely sucks.
Whether I have to provide ID myself or not, I prefer to live in a world where when a company even announces that they plan to do facial scanning, they lose most of their customers. Hard to keep track of everything every company is doing of course, but I will try to migrate off of Discord ASAP.
replyI don't disagree with that, personally.
replythis is hilarious, person who barely uses service says he will leave the service, what a concept
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