Am being driven slowly mad by you guys not parsing this sentence correctly. It literally starts with the option “scanning your face”, why would you need to do anything else?
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I knew not moisturising would pay off.
jul 10, 2025, 7:58 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm so drop dead gorgeous I'd crash the whole app.
jul 10, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Face scanning is not an accurate way to accurately determine age. Someone who's under 18 can pass for an adult and vice versa. It's why in the UK the rule is that you ID someone if they look under 25, not under 18, despite the legal limit being over 18 in most cases.
jul 11, 2025, 6:32 am • 2 0 • view
If they want a scan of my ugly mug the jokes on them really
jul 10, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I’d prefer the payment card. Let my bank verify my age
jul 11, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Are people mistaking the ‘or’ for an ‘and’?
jul 11, 2025, 6:24 am • 2 0 • view
I'll use a recent picture of Keith Richards - that should suffice.
jul 10, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Next you'll be saying "I have nothing to hide, go ahead and scan & archive all my private communications too please. That way it's more convenient for your authoritarian tendencies."
jul 11, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
What a genuinely ridiculous comment.
jul 11, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
People who own an iPhone through which they browse Bluesky should be totally fine with this
jul 10, 2025, 7:58 pm • 5 0 • view
There’s a difference between having your phone scan your face, the details of which never leave your phone, and your facial data going to a third party for age analysis though.
jul 11, 2025, 5:58 am • 2 0 • view
I mean, there is but I assume there’ll be safeguards in place, they aren’t going to sell it all to some Chinese app
jul 11, 2025, 6:01 am • 1 0 • view
You are kidding right?
jul 11, 2025, 6:34 am • 0 0 • view
I do not believe a company whose business model is providing 3rd party verification software to other companies that rely on them will sell pictures of my face to the Chinese, no.
jul 11, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view
But a hacker would.
jul 11, 2025, 7:06 am • 1 0 • view
And Epic have been hacked several times in the past.
jul 11, 2025, 7:08 am • 1 0 • view
no, right up until the time they do, or surrender it to the Vance World Order Examiners in 2030 ;)
jul 11, 2025, 6:09 am • 1 0 • view
No, indeed, but there’s still a big difference between a face scan with details stored locally and one that’s sent to a third party.
jul 11, 2025, 6:03 am • 2 0 • view
Agreed. So what about an app that scans your face and verifies age and the data never leaves your phone..? (I’m clearly no expert)
jul 11, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah we absolutely don't know that that won't happen. I'm certainly not giving them my face scan. All I need is the kids menu anyway - I like the idea of being protected from the stuff I didn't even know was here until yesterday.
jul 11, 2025, 6:26 am • 1 0 • view
How do you know?
jul 11, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Because a business with a model that is based around security and discretion would be drummed out of business off the back of one sale?
jul 11, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Is Zuckerberg out of business? I seem to recall him selling data to Cambridge Analytica!
jul 11, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Leaving aside the fact that’s not what happened (CA harvested data from FB, different thing), and leaving aside that FB was fined 5 billion and lost 100 billion off their share price, biometric data analysis was not FB’s selling point to customers whereas in this case it would be?
jul 11, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
You assume...
jul 11, 2025, 6:58 am • 0 0 • view
But what if you have a face that shatters glass, what then?
jul 11, 2025, 6:21 am • 0 0 • view
No, they won’t steal your ID or bank details because they’ll scan your face and you both are - and look - 47. Sorry to break it to you.
jul 10, 2025, 7:57 pm • 63 2 • view
Excellent. I’m 58 so loving the prospect of looking 47 again 💪
jul 10, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey, hey, harsh. True, but harsh.
jul 10, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I got IDd 2 years ago when getting my kids teachers Christmas presents. It was annoying anyway as I didn't have ID but really annoying cos I was under no illusion about the fact that I looked every day of my nearly 38 years.
jul 10, 2025, 8:02 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm still annoyed about it now, evidently.
jul 10, 2025, 8:02 pm • 2 0 • view
I wish I didn’t look my age either tbf and mine is worse than 47, I was being nice
jul 10, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
This is gonna be terrible for the thirty year olds that think they've held back the years with magnesium and spinach.
jul 11, 2025, 6:06 am • 1 0 • view
People who use their face to unlock their phone, then constantly post selfies of themselves and their shitty lunch and put their card details into sites to buy shit off the internet are complaining that social media is stealing their identities. Humans are fucking stupid.
jul 11, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view
I've been told for the past 60 years that I look a lot younger than I am so I'll probably have to cheat and scan my dad's face.
jul 10, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd rather give them my card details than let them know how old I look......
jul 10, 2025, 8:06 pm • 3 0 • view
You can also opt out of it and still have access.
jul 10, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah well you're using words and anyone with a working knowledge of history knows the Nazis also used words. Shame on you.
jul 11, 2025, 7:38 am • 2 0 • view
Sudo: is that the spelling in that strange alternative English spelling alphabet they taught kids in the late 60s? (Initial Teaching Alphabet)
jul 11, 2025, 6:54 am • 0 0 • view
Is the "sudo science" the science you do on Linux?
jul 11, 2025, 5:48 am • 8 0 • view
Whenever I read anyone talking about phrenology I remember that passing gag on a Discworld book, about the travelling retrophrenologist who would visit your town with a bag of mallets in different shapes and sizes.
jul 11, 2025, 5:58 am • 7 0 • view
"Measure my head bumps" "No!" "sudo measure my head bumps" "OK, sure"
jul 11, 2025, 6:19 am • 6 0 • view
Brilliant
jul 11, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
Also I mean the nazis weren't using 'racial profiling' in concentration camps because yknow once they'd sent people there identification had been done
jul 11, 2025, 9:12 am • 1 0 • view
Su-su-su-sudooooo
jul 11, 2025, 6:10 am • 0 0 • view
I am 63 but look 21. In my dreams..
jul 11, 2025, 6:29 am • 0 0 • view
I read the comments and it gets increasingly more insane. but it did give me the opportunity to block the absolute danger (and the type of person at whom this policy is aimed) who said we should be “educating our children about porn”.
jul 11, 2025, 5:51 am • 3 0 • view
Oh, and if you have a biometric passport, the UK government already has your facial image on file.
jul 11, 2025, 6:51 am • 2 0 • view
Does everyone look 47? I'd be fine with looking 47.
jul 10, 2025, 8:10 pm • 2 0 • view
I am 56 and I moisturise only rarely. Big win for me this morning.
jul 11, 2025, 7:06 am • 1 0 • view
I have never been so insulted in my life.
jul 10, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Hah! In your face! I only LOOK 47, actually
jul 10, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Um. I look extremely young and glamorous. So, this is just a lie?
jul 11, 2025, 6:25 am • 2 0 • view
Tbf you do look alarmingly young but you aren’t the median bluesky user
jul 11, 2025, 6:49 am • 2 0 • view
THANK YOU. Fucksake, was it that hard?
jul 11, 2025, 6:49 am • 2 0 • view
As an aside, discovered my boss genuinely thought I was in my mid 20s the other day, which is THRILLING and also explains why she kept asking me if there was a huge age gap between me and M. LMFAO
jul 11, 2025, 6:58 am • 3 0 • view
My aim is to age slowly enough that people start considering M to be a massive pervy sleaze
jul 11, 2025, 6:59 am • 5 0 • view
the second post in the thread contradicts the first. where the first says you lose access to bluesky, the second says you get an adult content filter. neither's a good idea, but that doesn't feel so apocalyptic
jul 11, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view
Muricans
jul 11, 2025, 6:48 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, the problem with face scanning isn't privacy (for most people), it's that trusting it to keep kids out is comically, *painfully* naïve.
jul 10, 2025, 8:45 pm • 4 0 • view
I mean tbf the average bluesky user is a 42 year old central government policy wonk so I don’t think keeping the kids out is strictly necessary and I’m not convinced of the need for the act to begin with but the chicken little stuff I also find unconvincing
jul 10, 2025, 8:47 pm • 8 0 • view
Yeah, I don't think spotty 14 year olds wanting some naughty stuff head for bluesky much...
jul 10, 2025, 8:49 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m quite happy they will have to work a bit harder for their smut - way too easy for them atm. Sneaking dodgy stuff to each other it right of passage stuff
jul 11, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view
Hey I'll have you know I'm older than that... and therefore above average. Right?
jul 11, 2025, 10:05 am • 0 0 • view
I get it, but I preferred it when you had to have a number and it wasn’t open to everyone. Still, they have to beat X somehow. I don’t use face ID on my phone because it irritates me.
jul 11, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
i like how everybody in the quote tweets are convinced that their bit of the site is the foundational, cornerstone part of the site
jul 10, 2025, 7:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Personally I'll probably just turn on the VPN.
jul 10, 2025, 8:34 pm • 1 0 • view
But that's even worse, isn't it? What VPNs do with your data can be really dodgy, especially as a load seem to have been giving sensitive data to the Russian and Chinese governments.
jul 11, 2025, 5:51 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, quite. If you’re paying for it, then *maybe* it’s fine, but anything free is selling whatever it can.
jul 11, 2025, 6:38 am • 1 0 • view
If I scan my face and it asks for a second method because I just look too damn young. I will be flexing!
jul 11, 2025, 5:27 am • 1 0 • view
Also, the meat of the story is "verify your identity or they'll filter out certain explicit content" (not cut off access as the headline implies). Granted, there are people with legitimate concerns(TM) there, but one option is to just.. stay unverified and leave the filter on.
jul 10, 2025, 8:31 pm • 7 1 • view
Verify your *age*, not identity. But yes.
jul 10, 2025, 8:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Ah, hang on, this means no more jokes about the absurdly hot models on wxcharts.com, for risk my account gets flagged as smut. This is bad...
jul 10, 2025, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Would also stop me accidentally clicking on nsfw stuff on my work phone and having a panic attack. Bonus.
jul 11, 2025, 6:27 am • 1 0 • view
Half the people complaining have their own picture as their profile picture.
jul 10, 2025, 8:20 pm • 31 1 • view
The other half spent a lot of time on here talking about what a terrible misogynistic place social media & the world generally is and how we must do something about it. Fucking infuriating.
jul 10, 2025, 8:27 pm • 4 0 • view
What isn’t?
jul 10, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw that and it's not the only post that tries to frame an attempt to stop minors looking at porn or being contacted by strangers on the internet as part of a war in the middle east. It's for each individual to decide whether that's acceptable or a sick leveraging of an already horrific situation.
jul 10, 2025, 10:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Well, quite! It does rather ignore the fact that the bill had a long and tortuous route through parliament that started at least 18 months before the 7th October attacks and indeed became law only 19 days later.
jul 10, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 0 • view