Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default “teen-appropriate” experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

  • vikinghoarder@infosec.pub
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    17 hours ago

    It probably also says something of the ones that stay: they can keep getting further exploited. And these are the ones they want.

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      16 hours ago

      Same tactic used by scammers sending “bad” messages - it’s at least partially in purpose to single out the good marks.