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Genshin Impact Will Soon Require Age Verification in the United States (programming.dev)
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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The why is rarely argued. The how is always the point of contention. That's why I am wondering what they are asking for age verification.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't understand what you mean. They're clearly requesting ages over 13 and disabling purchases for those under 16.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I am asking how will they verify the age?

EDIT: I think you might be misunderstanding the grammar. I am not asking "what for". "What for" = "why". I am asking "what do they want as a form of age verification".

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago

Yeah, if the end consequence is creating a giant database of photos of US ID's (and storing which accounts theyre associated with as a nice bonus) then that is, in my opinion, not great.

I understand Discord is already rolling out ID verification in the UK and their solution is to use a 3rd party service (you send them your, they just send discord a "is over 18? YES/NO). Personally I don't think thats much better but it won't be Discord's own liability when they find out call center employees in India or Vietnam are using the images of your ID to sell online or something.