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too late i just scanned my whole body into club penguin
I will scan my face and rub it all over the internet
I wonder about Google photos…
I’ve always obsessively kept my photos off any cloud provider for years only to discover that the entire rest of the family have a treasure trove of fully tagged pictures of me uploaded to every major provider out there. In most cases I think it even ties the tag to my phone/email/birthday entry in their Contacts list.
If you absolutely have to scan a face, apparently this works: nofacescan.app
didnt work for me
Meanwhile their CEO loves republicans and supports fascist influencers through money and by meeting up with them for videos.
Fuck Proton.
so is menero if anyone is thinking of switching (their host country’s equivalent)
Don’t scan your face for Insta,
The influencers want your polaroid.
Don’t scan your face for Twitter,
Elon wants your dogecoin.
Don’t scan your face for YouTube,
The vloggers want your shorts.
Don’t scan your face for Twitch,
The Slime Ranchers want your plorts.
or anything, else for that matter
thank god we can still scan our face for lemmy
Here I am: :-D
The only pic anyone gets of me is my dick pic.
yeah doesnt everybody have to send the mods one every few weeks??
That’s how you keep your account still active.
Uh. I had a very lovely chat with someone, then I looked at their profile and saw many different angles of their dick. I was hoping to discover new subs and I discovered their dick instead. I’m not checking out your profile.
I was hoping to discover new subs
I mean, all the dick pic.s don’t necessarily mean they’re a dom.
Lmao
I get all of them except Roblox? Isn’t that a place for kids?
roblox enforces age verification and separates users into age groups. yet, moderation is in shambles (did i mention ai-assisted?) and separating the kids in one bunch and the teenagers in another basically is just a feast for pedos and groomers
Every single one of those websites is not crucial to existence even remotely. Let’s all collectively show them they don’t matter anymore.
Good luck getting the kids off of Roblox. They would literally kill someone for robux.
The problem is that most people don’t care about digital privacy and wouldn’t think twice when asked to scan their face to access an app or website.
I remember reading about a teen who gave a random website her social security number to get 75% off. She was confused why it was such a big deal. She saved $500!
“They already have all my data anyway”
The same people when I was trying to warn them in like 2012 - “They don’t want my data, I’m not that interesting”
It’s true. There’s a whole chunk of mainstream users that won’t think twice about it. I don’t blame them though. Most people aren’t educated on the negatives and our government and tech oligarchs aren’t about to teach them. I work in tech and am terminally online, so I’m acutely aware of this stuff.
Even people who are don’t seam to care. One of my local revolutionary socialist org’s still uses WhatsApp for there general communication. I think it takes a special kind of nerdyness and neurodivergence.
Not only are they not necessary, they’re actually harmful to existence. Admittedly I use YouTube somewhat through privacy front ends, but quitting all the others has been great for my health. Using nebula has also minimised my use of YouTube.
YouTube is the only one left for me as well and I’ve been considering Nebula myself. One thing I do try to avoid though is all of the rage bait stuff. I actively filter it out and focus only on videos that teach me things. So a lot of science, food, carpentry, and other crafty kind of channels and videos. Oh, and a lot of animal ones.
I love nebula for a lot of the topics you listed, highly recommend it!
Why would you pay for a YouTube replacement with far less content? Just use an ad-blocker, sponsor blocker or a private frontend. Maybe even torrent-tube if your into that kind of thing.
Any free alternatives for YouTube?
YouTube is problematic because it isn’t really the platform that is valuable, it is the content creators.
A more appropriate alternative to it is GrayJay app, which tries to remove YouTube monopoly by supporting multiple platforms. If enough people would use that, content creators could really migrate from one platform to another.
Grayjay is a nice front end that doesn’t require sign in.
Peertube is probably the closest. I don’t really use either, but I’ve understood that peertube is a bit lacking in content.
As you’re here on lemmy.ml, I doubt it, but if you happen to be a “cryptocurrency enthusiast”, then odysee might also be an option, though I’m not sure hiw much of it is open-source.
odyssey (keep in mind, no 1-1 alternative for youtube exists, yet)
If longform video is your thing, I would highly suggest Nebula. I’ve paid £27.30 for a years subscription. Creators say they get paid fairly and can make content without censorship. It has been exactly what I’m into.
Good advice
Why did all the American companies suddenly start asking for my ID?
Because we have reached some sort of critical mass of ad blocking and anonymization online, enough that it’s starting to hurt the bottom line, so they need a solid way to track people for that shit.
Also, the US is currently being run by a rabid pack of puritan Christo fascists, ie Project 2025. Right now it’s “protect the children”, but ultimately the idea is to track and sensor and “reeducate” people.
“Oh, you search for ‘signs I am gay’? Better report to God Camp.”
Don’t even think about trying to be anything that does not fit in the box.
To protect the children
But the president is a pedofile protector, it doesn’t make any sense!
In case you didn’t get it. The “protect the children” comment was likely meant to be facetious. That’s the excuse usually used to increase authoritarian surveillance.
Lol yes, just wanted to bring the same energy from that Simpsons lady.
I usually like to verify since without a sarcasm mark and with all the different people in different cultures and language barriers, sometimes it those things tend to get lost. 🙂
The president protects pedophiles because he is a pedophile himself
Exactly. He doesn’t actually care about protecting pedos. He just cares about protecting himself.
To fight terrorists
Yes! To stop the terrorist children!
for democracy burgers and missiles
Do You Guys Not Have Phones?
Looks like Diablo guy was a prophet
If an app/website requires a face scan I won’t use it
Deleted Reddit after I got asked to do this to Confirm my age.
I didn’t need ro access any 18+ content on that platform but for me this was the alarm bell that made me actually delete my account.
The problem is that Reddit NSFW is an extremely broad category that doesn’t only include porn. So many posts and memes are tagged with it. Realizing that I’m now seeing a censored, inauthentic version of Reddit made me delete the app.
The whole brutal death metal community is NSFW because if the album covers, and I don’t wanna flash my face to that platform just for the music I enjoy listening
