Using Discord has always been a risky choice. If you’re a guest in other people’s “servers”, Discord can at any moment decide to lock you out of all your communities and contacts. They have been known to do this in order to extort personal information like a phone number or ID, for example. If you run a “server”, they can likewise shut it down at any moment, effectively destroying years of accumulated knowledge and contacts. They have done this to business owners who relied on it for customer interactions.

IMHO, we really shouldn’t be using Discord.

This is actually illegal in multiple countries. The Netherlands prohibit asking for ID in many circumstances, and mainly limits it to the government, notaries, and the like.

Corporations are not allowed to ask you for your ID. This is bullshit, and they can and will 100% abuse this data to prey on younger users.

Thankfully I haven’t used discord in forever and won’t need to in the foreseeable.

That said, looking at this implementation it seems as though using option 1 their AI is just going to guess your age from looking at you. It might instruct you to turn this way or that, but it’s just video or stills.

It’s only if their AI can’t be confident that you’re over 18 that you’re referred to option 2, which requires ID.

How easy will it be to emulate a camera device to help you work around option 1? I suspect very easy.

Being 43, I’m not worried about passing the age restriction, I’m just hoping to avoid ever having to show my real face to a platform like this.