Reddit CEO says facial verification may be introduced. Ostensibly to prevent bots.
But we all know how dangerous this can be. But most likely Reddit users will just accept it.
Although they have a great free analogue right under their noses - Lemmy. Which is many times better than its competitor.
I wish more people would discover Lemmy, but that’s unlikely.
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I’m curious if anyone has found a story indicating that they actually want a photo of your face? The original Engadget article seems to indicate that they’re talking about Apple FaceID/TouchID, not an actual image upload.
Apple stores all biometrics data locally on the device. Reddit wouldn’t ever see your face if this is the case; they would just get the passkey token generated by the secure enclave. Am I misunderstanding why this is causing outrage?
They must mean automatic scripts and bots that didn’t pay for acces.
Ahahahahahahahahah funny, proooove you are not a bot ! 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 🤣🤣🤣🤣 mehhhh, upload an ID ✔️✔️✔️✔️
This data surely goes straight to Palentir
Watch /r/politics posts go from 22k upvotes to 3k upvotes overnight.
BREAKING NEWS! Reddit figured out how to make their platform even shittier
never been happier to have been banned for no reason at all
On the one hand, this is awful and will be a complete clusterfuck
On the other hand, it would be acceptable if the mods have to use a recent photo as an avatar.
I want most people to switch to lemmy.
Oh sure, that’s why.
They made it easier for bots to thrive by allowing hidden post histories, limiting the API, and punishing users for “bad” reports, but claim they need face ID to filter out bots?
I’m a new lemmy user because of this
So glad I ditched reddit.
Awesome, love it, hope they do it. I love me a good fire.
Face ID? Has he not been paying attention? It’s pretty triival at this point to generate a picture of someone’s face.
