Not really. They’re still harvesting/monitoring everyone’s chats and are moving forward with age verification, to include behavior-based age verification. They’re just hiring a different scummy vendor to handle the age checks.
They are boiling the frog, just like whatsapp did in 2021 remember the uproar about whatsapp data sharing with business accounts and stuff, whatsapp played the long game delayed the change, let the anger die and everyone just stayed.
Reddit took the tough approach in 2023. they didn’t budge. people stopped boycotting and went back to reddit shortly after.
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Didn’t Discord like instantly back down from those proposed changes?
Nope it’s delayed them.
They only delayed them. They’re still hoping to force ID verification for accessing specific content later this year.
I dont see why people would downvote an honest question. Probably going to discourage more people from asking questions. Is that what we want?
Not really. They’re still harvesting/monitoring everyone’s chats and are moving forward with age verification, to include behavior-based age verification. They’re just hiring a different scummy vendor to handle the age checks.
They are boiling the frog, just like whatsapp did in 2021 remember the uproar about whatsapp data sharing with business accounts and stuff, whatsapp played the long game delayed the change, let the anger die and everyone just stayed.
Reddit took the tough approach in 2023. they didn’t budge. people stopped boycotting and went back to reddit shortly after.
Boycotts don’t work
Boycotts work 100% of the time of people actually follow through on them. We’ve seen this time and time again. Most recently with Jimmy Kimmel.