Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

  • TerdFerguson@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Discord gets paid for user’s data and they just lost a ton of users. That’s why they are “cutting ties” with Persona.

    I suspect its more of a temporary reaction and they will reframe this age-verification and the related data collection and try again later.

    • lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      This. People seem to think that if they don’t pay for a service or click on ads on social sites, then they aren’t contributing to the company’s revenue. They fail to realize that THEY themselves are the product being sold. The sites/services and the interactions people have on them are merely a byproduct of the business model which is selling people’s data. The only way to win is to not play.