r/privacy

Rumors are going around that certain interests have a "Pr0ject 2029" and with it comes Internet censorship and tracking, including and not limited to a complete Labor party UK/Australia social media ban.

How is this even remotely legal and constitutional?

I was fighting with Reddit age verification for an hour but it would not verify my age because it had a problem with my mustache and I am not going to shave my mustache for the dumb age verification and I am not going to give them my ID

(just to try I also tried Twitter's age verification and it let me through in the first try)

Edit: this post is regarding NSFW content now being blocked on my reddit account and receiving the age verification prompt when trying to access said content. I am being asked to upload either a live selfie or photos of my ID card.

Got hit with this just a few moments ago when visiting one of the subreddits that covers the Ukraine war, which I have been following closely since 2014. Located in EU. The funny part is I don’t even use this app for porn. I use actual porn sites for porn. Oh and I can’t even see my own profile lol

On the bright side reddit is my only social media account. Had MySpace back in the Stone Age but have never had instagram, tiktok, facebook, or anything else. So I guess I’ll be turning to only checking trusted news sources and living a social media free life. I grew up without it after all so I think I’ll live. I’ve also got a bookshelf full of books just waiting to be cracked open.

Posting this to spread awareness that this is happening and will continue happening. I will delete all accounts and stop using any service that does this permanently. You should all do the same.

I’m aware that this can most likely be bypassed but I do not care enough to do so and am unwilling to do so. Do not ever under any circumstances give these companies any of your information. They need us. We do not need them.

I haven't been to high school in 5+ years, it's weird to suddenly see the names and faces of people I had forgotten.

Using PrivacyPuppet for Google Age Verification (selfdoxx) doesn't work anymore and now results in them forcing you to send them your ID or Credit Card?

Are there really no other loopholes?

I want to use AI Studio without being doxxed

A friend of mine, who has recently made a account to post her stories has called me complaining that she now has to submit a photo of her face or her government ID to actually share her stories.

What the actual fuck, this is actually turning into a dystopian nightmare, this isn't about "protecting children" it's about taking away privacy.

I used to rely on temp mail a lot. It’s great when you just need a quick code and you don’t really care about the account after that.

But honestly, most real signups aren’t like that.

Like…
Shopping accounts? You’ll probably need receipts or return emails later.
SaaS trials? Billing reminders or “your trial is ending” emails show up later.
Newsletters? Some of them are actually useful.
And password resets? Those can hit you months after you signed up.

So yeah, the problem isn’t just “I need a fake inbox for 5 minutes.”

It’s more like:

“I don’t want to give every random website my real email… but I still might need access to some of those emails later.”

That’s why I’ve been leaning more toward using email aliases instead of just temp mail.

Like:
One alias for shopping
One for newsletters
One for SaaS trials
One for random signups
And sometimes even one per site if I really don’t trust it

It’s not like this makes you anonymous or anything, but it definitely cuts down how often your real email gets exposed.

Curious how other people deal with this.

Do you stick with temp mail, use aliases, Gmail plus addressing, separate inboxes… or something else?

Guess now I’ll either have to hair and makeup just right or just not go.

Isn't it interesting how STD clinics are anonymous, but you're not allowed to have privacy for everything else?

This predates surveillance capitalism, so it's an interesting touchstone.

EDIT: The platform is X

Sorry if this isn’t the correct subreddit to post this but I don’t know where else to post it.

This isn't a country someone would normally guess either, so how is that possible? I use an anonymous account with a burner email, so there shouldn't be any way to connect my account to my real identity. I even went through all of my posts and replies, and there was absolutely nothing that could have revealed where I'm from.

Am I missing something, or is there another way they could have figured it out?

This happened more than once. I ask Chatgpt about a specific topic that I have never been interested in before, then it gets recommended to me on my reddit home page with a post from a subreddit about that specific topic.

For a long time I ignored it, mostly because I thought I was imagining it. But it's getting really unnerving.

When I asked chatgpt about it, it tried to gaslight me into believing I was imagining it by saying stuff like: "Once something is on your mind, you notice it more. Psychologists call this the frequency illusion or Baader-Meinhof effect."

I searched through the app settings but I couldn't find anything to stop this or turn this off.

I know other companies like google used to (and still) do this too, like showing you ads based on your search history. But it felt less creepy back then.

Is there a way to bypass the Persona verification? i want to use reddit, but i am not going to give them my information.

I tried some face scan apps, but none of them work. Strangely, the Persona verification tool won't even accept my real face or ID, keeps giving me an error over and over.

If you have any advice or anything that worked, please let me know.

There’s a secondhand marketplace that I wanna shop from, but to buy and sell clothes you need some kind of verification. It’s to filter out scammers.

The only verification options available are either you have an active Facebook account or an ID verification with only your photo and name visible. They do not specify which ID card though. I do not use Facebook, but I’m hesitating on emailing them my ID too due to privacy concerns. What would your advice be?

Weekly statistics from an NSFW sub which I moderate:

Visits:107K (-10K). Comments:916 (-294). Posts:217 (-25). New members: +1.6K.

Traffic always fluctuates a small bit, but this seems statistically significant and coincides quite perfectly with the day they began asking for ID's and facial scans. The "new members" part shows a growth. But it's worth noting that the sub growth used to have a slow but steady increase in pace. Doing around 2K per week until a very sudden, very significant, drop. North American users also appear to make up a larger portion of the viewers on the individual posts in the subreddit. The evidence is of course purely anecdotal, but at least it's something. Anyone else seeing similar things?

I doubt reddit would unveil any of their own statistics regarding what proportion of users have actually caved to big brother. But considering that North Americans already seemed to make up a pretty solid majority of the users in said sub, it can't be nearly as many as they hoped. And this makes me very damn proud. Truth be told I was worried that reddit would barely take a dent at all, but Europeans seem to be steadfast so far.

For a long time, careful drivers had a deal they could count on. Keep a clean record, skip the claims, and your insurance stayed reasonable. Your driving was judged on results. Did you crash? Did you get tickets? Did you cost the company money? If the answer was no, you were rewarded.

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That deal got rewritten, and most people never got the memo. A lot of newer cars now keep a running log of how you drive (every hard brake, every fast start, every late-night trip). In case after case that log has been handed to insurance companies before the driver ever filed a claim. The scorecard grew a second page, and this one grades how you behave behind the wheel, moment to moment, then sells the result.

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About 90% of new cars on the road collect information on how the person behind the wheel drives, according to Telemetry, an automotive advisory firm. Not all of it reaches insurers, and some drivers signed up on purpose for programs that promise a discount. But a good share of this happened to people who had no idea it was happening at all.

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Full article https://www.freshfromcache.com/your-car-grades-your-driving/

I first heard about this guy when YouTube announced that they were doing AI Age Verification