Poll of the Day > how long until GameFAQs requires ID?

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i'd think "User Since: Jul 2006" would be a pretty useful vector for age estimation.

Oh you 21st century younglings. :P

To weed out those of us too old to argue on the Internet?

SinisterSlay posted...

To weed out those of us too old to argue on the Internet?

There goes literally 100% of the current user base though

faramir77 posted...

There goes literally 100% of the current user base though

I argue from my hospital bed

If GameFAQs introduced it the site would be dead in about a week. I can't imagine anyone here views the site as such a necessity that they'd be willing to "reregister" and give any sort of elaborate personal info confirmation.

But also...

Questionmarktarius posted...

i'd think "User Since: Jul 2006" would be a pretty useful vector for age estimation.

This would be a pretty huge factor.

It was one of the things mentioned when YouTube was talking about unleashing an AI to spy on people's viewing patterns and arbitrarily decide if it thinks they're secretly underage and then automatically curate their experience. One of the factors the AI would supposedly look at is whether or not you're using an account to browse, and if so, how old the account is.

Basically, if you've got an account that's 20+ years old, odds are you presumably aren't a child. Unless an adult gave you their account for some reason, or you managed to steal it somehow.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If GameFAQs introduced it the site would be dead in about a week. I can't imagine anyone here views the site as such a necessity that they'd be willing to "reregister" and give any sort of elaborate personal info confirmation.

But also...

This would be a pretty huge factor.

It was one of the things mentioned when YouTube was talking about unleashing an AI to spy on people's viewing patterns and arbitrarily decide if it thinks they're secretly underage and then automatically curate their experience. One of the factors the AI would supposedly look at is whether or not you're using an account to browse, and if so, how old the account is.

Basically, if you've got an account that's 20+ years old, odds are you presumably aren't a child. Unless an adult gave you their account for some reason, or you managed to steal it somehow.

Or you just never log out and a child happens to use that computer. That's why all the "robust" age verification going on right now means you'll eventually have to do some sort of age verification every single time you visit a site, because one-time verification is going to fail.

That, and the Tea app fiasco should be raising all sorts of red flags as to why NO ONE should be willing to do any sort of "robust" ID verification of any sort.

willythemailboy posted...

Or you just never log out and a child happens to use that computer. That's why all the "robust" age verification going on right now means you'll eventually have to do some sort of age verification every single time you visit a site, because one-time verification is going to fail.

What's keeping a kid from "borrowing" dad's ID?
This is all somehow less secure than a liquor store, which doesn't even keep a copy.

Questionmarktarius posted...

What's keeping a kid from "borrowing" dad's ID?
This is all somehow less secure than a liquor store, which doesn't even keep a copy.

inb4 thumbprint scanners (which don't work for me most of the time)

willythemailboy posted...

inb4 thumbprint scanners (which don't work for me most of the time)

The UK has been using facial recognition software. Which you can apparently beat just by showing it random photos of celebrities' faces.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The UK has been using facial recognition software. Which you can apparently beat just by showing it random photos of celebrities' faces.

Or some video game faces, which is why I expect more "robust" methods to be introduced eventually unless hopefully the British people literally revolt over it.

I am simply refusing any website that asks me for an ID.

This is obviously an identity harvesting op trying to link identities to internet activity. There is no good reason to buy into this.

I have no doubts they're going to use this to train AI.

VioletZer0 posted...

I am simply refusing any website that asks me for an ID.

This is obviously an identity harvesting op trying to link identities to internet activity. There is no good reason to buy into this.

I have no doubts they're going to use this to train AI.

Good choice because it will get hacked, often.
A rushed start up with a treasure trove as big as Equifax. They will be DDoS just by accident from the legions of hackers all trying at the same time.
I look forward to the shame lists that get published and how they have politicians names in them

willythemailboy posted...

Or some video game faces, which is why I expect more "robust" methods to be introduced eventually unless hopefully the British people literally revolt over it.

I'm just waiting to see them ban VPNs because people are using them to bypass restrictions as well.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'm just waiting to see them ban VPNs because people are using them to bypass restrictions as well.

They already plan to try.
I look forward to when millennials are finally in government. It'll be utter chaos

SinisterSlay posted...

Good choice because it will get hacked, often.
A rushed start up with a treasure trove as big as Equifax. They will be DDoS just by accident from the legions of hackers all trying at the same time.
I look forward to the shame lists that get published and how they have politicians names in them

I almost appreciate the Tea hack now because it just showed the entire world how it is a bad idea to give tech your ID right before big tech started their big identity harvesting op.

*sighs in British*

I don't think they're going to do this because that would imply any political forces care about online forums. When your average lawmaker thinks about social media, they don't think about the piss drop of forum users. They think of the unwashed Facebook masses.

Then again they did ban all political discussions after Israel decided to *redacted*

Questionmarktarius posted...

i'd think "User Since: Jul 2006" would be a pretty useful vector for age estimation.

You would think... I've heard stories of users getting banned because they claimed to be unborn fetuses.

In November it will be required

Yellow posted...

I don't think they're going to do this because that would imply any political forces care about online
You would think... I've heard stories of users getting banned because they claimed to be unborn fetuses.

I am two hundred trillion years old and what is this?

Questionmarktarius posted...

I am two hundred trillion years old and what is this?

I am -2,432,6546,765,454,454,382,566,000.5 years old. In enough time, the universe will reform enough times for me to manifest.

Yellow posted...

I am -2,432,6546,765,454,454,382,566,000.5 years old. In enough time, the universe will reform enough times for me to manifest.

from the last cycle, I see.
how did you escape the lastest crunch? I'll need to know that eventually.

Questionmarktarius posted...

from the last cycle, I see.
how did you escape the lastest crunch? I'll need to know that eventually.

Well fundamental physics re-rolled slightly, which was pretty annoying, but thankfully the same loophole I used the last time the heat death still applied. Idk if it's going to keep working at this rate, fucking bullshit that they keep changing it. Somehow my internet connection still works.

My unborn and unable to participate in this site (according to its TOU) spirit will be born around 4000 heat deaths from now on a planet called %$s

I really look forward to inhabiting a body one day so I can eventually obey the TOU of this site.

This is the equivalent of poking a United States police officer with a stick and going "Ey, this isn't illegal, hahaha"

Yellow posted...

You would think... I've heard stories of users getting banned because they claimed to be unborn fetuses.

Yellow posted...

I am -2,432,6546,765,454,454,382,566,000.5 years old. In enough time, the universe will reform enough times for me to manifest.

So you go and do the thing you've seen people get banned for?

HelIWithoutSin posted...

So you go and do the thing you've seen people get banned for?

I think I would break some kind of record, so I accept this

Yellow posted...

I don't think they're going to do this because that would imply any political forces care about online forums. When your average lawmaker thinks about social media, they don't think about the piss drop of forum users. They think of the unwashed Facebook masses.

Then again they did ban all political discussions after Israel decided to *redacted*

You would think... I've heard stories of users getting banned because they claimed to be unborn fetuses.

That's the problem is that now they don't have to care.

They want to feed our identities and our web history into an AI for profiling to spy on us.

An ID for what? Are there some Baldur's Gate 3 guides around here that aren't kid friendly? The best summer wear for Shadowheart and Lae'zel as chosen by Minthara (yeah, it would be strings).

Two, Gamefaqs could already do the math for how long I've been here, then laugh, and not need to know my age.

Three, Gamefaqs could just ask me what 'Tales from the Crypt' is, and once again they would know my age without carding.

Roachmeat posted...

An ID for what? Are there some Baldur's Gate 3 guides around here that aren't kid friendly? The best summer wear for Shadowheart and Lae'zel as chosen by Minthara (yeah, it would be strings).

Two, Gamefaqs could already do the math for how long I've been here, then laugh, and not need to know my age.

Three, Gamefaqs could just ask me what 'Tales from the Crypt' is, and once again they would know my age without carding.

Apparently people in the UK are now getting age verification prompts to... checks notes... update their video drivers. It was never about porn.

Yellow posted...

I've heard stories of users getting banned because they claimed to be unborn fetuses.

They've largely stopped that now. For a while, any admission to being underage was just KoS regardless of how obviously it was a joke, but with the relaxation of the ToU a few years back (probably actually like 10+ at this point), that was one of the things they stopped caring about.

willythemailboy posted...

Apparently people in the UK are now getting age verification prompts to... checks notes... update their video drivers. It was never about porn.

But don't you know that video drivers are used by hedonistic perverts to maximize the number of underage bestiality anime pixels they can drool over?

Yellow posted...

I don't think they're going to do this because that would imply any political forces care about online forums. When your average lawmaker thinks about social media, they don't think about the piss drop of forum users. They think of the unwashed Facebook masses.

Then again they did ban all political discussions after Israel decided to *redacted*

You would think... I've heard stories of users getting banned because they claimed to be unborn fetuses.

People like to post fictional stories after all.