in 10 years age verification will be so entrenched as the status quo that saying age verification is bad and ineffective will get responses like "well what do you propose, *not* have age verification?" like it's a foregone conclusion and was always there

mark my words

March 12, 2026 - 08:48 UTC

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Hey Eniko. It sure looks that way to me also.
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Y'know, I'd be fine with notion of age verification as a concept to protect youths if, I'unno, we actually prosecuted ANYONE in a certain set of files instead of fighting a cover-up war.

Like, shit man, let's do it, but let's start at the top! Lead by example, kind of thing!
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We can't let this happen
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*sigh* I miss the internet where people actually had the gumption to push back against invasive bullshit. (Yeah, I know, that didn't last all that long, but it was still nice.)

Now it's just entire continents of ceded ground.

I mean, hell, people used to get heated about COOKIES ffs.
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Remember when you could turn JavaScript off in your whole browser and basically everything still worked?

Good times
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who controls the hardware needs to change. this is happening incrementally. private business owning any infrastructure is always a security risk.
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We're in the last stretch of an electoral campaign here and someone was pointing out that a decade ago, arming city cops was a far-right thing. Now my local left-winger won't even suggest taking the guns away
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And the seepage of irrelevant personal data will have become a flood.
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now that everything is an app and every website requires a login and every garden is walled, age verification slots right in with what we already have; people just noticed too late
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Yep. Especially with the way the UK is going too.
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I remember when "horse armor" was a ridiculous concept and now I see people unironically defending MTX as a fair practice for cosmetics

the younger audience has never experienced anything else, this is normal for them. that thing about it only taking a single generation to normalize something ...
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Like loot boxes and micro transactions and season passes.
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I hope you are wrong, but it feels like that's where we are going 😒
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Like passports themselves and borders.
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I was just complaining about this by joking about butthole scanning and everyone told me this was an adult swim skit lol
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i think thats one of thiels lived wishes. all us cattle monitored, intake to output. all output, hes had a creepy obsession with personal data for a long time.
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Have no fear
The ai chip in your brain will just not allow you to think about how invasive constant age verification are
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Time to bring back a classic:

I do not like this Eniko
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Those who don't study history are doomed...

(full stop)
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Ok, but people said that about paid streaming video services over just sharing everything for free via torrents.

What next? People are actually going to pay microtransactions and monthly subscriptions for videosgame??

smdh
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I was there. I was there 30 years ago when the stuff we did dicking about on the 100Mb(!!!) leased line at college would get us banged up for life as "cybercriminals" or "domestic extremists" or "conspiracy theorists" nowadays 🤣
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