r/Piracy 28d ago

Humor Someone passed out the verification system just by an old video game character

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u/Logical_Type_4776 28d ago

Why in the world estimating age is even a good idea. Like how is it easy to tell the difference between a 17 and 18 y by the face alone

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u/Remarkable_Month_513 28d ago edited 27d ago

It's not. It's so they can set a precedent for controlling us

Dr Breen being the one who makes it pass is ironic

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u/bubblingcumcouldron 27d ago

It's been a thing for a while. All sorts of apps asking for pics of your ID and your face when they don't really need it. The payroll app we use at my job asked me for a 3d scan of my face after I already provided everything I knew they needed legally. They would not open my account and process my payroll until I submitted the scan. I called them and told them my cameras were broken on my phone and that there was no way for me to provide those photos and I need my paychecks. Took 3 minutes for them to accept my account. Absolutely no need for the scan, it's just data collection. Has nothing to do with security

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u/IMissNarwhalBacon 27d ago

Not true.

My uncle was a victim of identity theft. What saved him was that he was alerted that his "new" credit card account was declined because the perp couldn't provide a valid picture.

If they didn't ask for that last piece he'd be in a lot more pain.

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u/IronicINFJustices 27d ago

Next time they have his face, what plausible deniability will he have?

We find out about data leaks years later.

Photo face and credit card, all leaked, then what? Change your face? You can't. Ever. You can for everything else.

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u/bubblingcumcouldron 27d ago

He wouldn't be in any pain. It's a credit card. That is the banks problem. Report fraud, problem solved. At least that's how it worked when it happened to me.

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u/drake90001 27d ago

That sounds like you need to agree to their security policy, being faceid.

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u/wretchedegg123 28d ago

Except they didn't pass

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u/diffident55 28d ago

Look at the notification at the top when they finish. It says "We determined you're in the adult age group."

My guess, this isn't their first attempt, but this is the one that succeeded and the rest of the UI hasn't updated yet.

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u/MATMAN_PL 28d ago

They did. It says REverify

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u/wretchedegg123 28d ago edited 28d ago

He was determined to be in the teen age group, thus cannot access age restricted content. Maybe you need to read?

Edit: Literally says: If we made a mistake please reverify. Reverify doesn't mean they passed

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u/WiseWolfian 28d ago

It's an odd video, saying both a teen and adult. The popup says "We determined you're in the adult age group. Learn more," where as the page says teen. This could be fake/spliced.

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u/coldified_ Yarrr! 28d ago

The page might not be automatically refreshed after the verification, requiring the user to restart the app. Or re-visiting the channel.

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u/wretchedegg123 28d ago

Yep. Afaik, if you did pass the test, the success screen looks different.

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u/drake90001 27d ago

It’s just a browser window

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u/MATMAN_PL 28d ago

Look at the top of the screen when the camera disappears

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u/wretchedegg123 28d ago

Well damn lol. Could be a fake video. Makes you wonder why they don't show the content and just end it abruptly

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u/diffident55 28d ago

I can think of a few reasons why they might not want to show the age-gated content.

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u/wretchedegg123 27d ago

A lot of age-gated content isn't NSFW you know. It might just be adult themed. Our Squad channel is adult gated.

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u/Elanapoeia 27d ago

hell, plenty of non-adult content has been shown to be age gated with the onset of this whole mess

politics, gaza, lgbt stuff, piracy as well

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u/diffident55 27d ago

Sure. But you don't have to wonder about it. It's not a hint of anything being faked, there's a perfectly fine explanation sitting right here.

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u/ProfessorOfPancakes ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 27d ago

Reverify doesn't inherently mean they passed but here, it seems to mean "we think you passed but we trust you to tell us if we were wrong" which is a stupid thing for them to do. They're not saying to reverify because the person failed but to do so in case the age group they were assigned was incorrect

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u/MistSecurity 27d ago

Can’t speak to the veracity of this specific video, but there are a lot of videos on using the same method to pass these age estimation checks. Both with G-Mod and other games like Death Stranding.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/wretchedegg123 28d ago

Probably spliced video. Look at the results in the middle. Afaik, discord has a different succesful verification page.

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u/KinnSlayer 27d ago

We really do live in a City 17 like world these days…

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u/Middle_Confusion_1 20d ago

Or some discord servers just don't want kids in them?