Finally it seems the end of Reddit is near.

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    59 minutes ago

    Yeah, fuck all that.

    Guess we’re transitioning into a VPN only future.

    We have the opportunity to head into a utopic or dystopic future and we’re absolutely choosing the dystopic one.

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        35 minutes ago

        Indeed. With our current system it was only a matter of time. As soon as the internet became a default thing which everyone needed to access just to function in their daily lives, it would of course be subjected to the exact same exploitative mechanisms that the non-internet part of our lives have suffered from since the dawn of history.

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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    35 minutes ago

    u/spez was the lead moderator of r/jailbait, and when he was caught, he got rid of mod transparency. Ghilisaine Maxwell was likely a l lead moderator of news Reddits as well (u/MaxwellHill). Reddit has always been compromised.

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    4 hours ago

    Next in the news: “500k Usernames, Passwords and biometric data leaked in the latest hack”

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      So…coming soon: an app that can match up images of friends or colleagues with a summary of their pornography preferences.

      This could at least liven up some boring meetings or dull parties…

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      4 hours ago

      Remember those are just the ones you hear about. Plenty happen and are never talked about by either side for obvious reasons.

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      4 hours ago

      Who is not “Rick Rolling” this with a selfie of a stock photo (or a frame from “Never Gonna Give you Up”?)

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.world
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    4 hours ago

    This is the facebook “show a video of your face” bs all over again. glad i don’t have an account on either site bc not only is it a huge privacy concern, you know they store all that data and are going to sell it and/or use it to train AI models

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      3 hours ago

      “That’s a crime what you are doing”

      “What, taking a leak?”

      “No, holding a little boy’s dick”

      laugh track playing, with accompanying drumroll

        • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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          51 minutes ago

          They can force you to use your phone’s camera. Due to faceID, modern phones have fairly sophisticated cameras that can tell the difference between a static image and a 3d physical face.

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          I’m not the person you were replying to but maybe the limit of using the websites like the ones I posted is you can’t reuse the same face (at least not than I’m aware of).

          So if you are in the UK and you upload 2 selfies from the site and the facial recognition pattern is different from each other, then the system which Reddit is using might reject it.

          This is only a guess though.

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            2 hours ago

            It should be trivial to generate a stack of similar enough selfies to fool these systems. Still, any site that starts requiring this shit isn’t worth going on.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    is reddit still alive? it must be 100% bot on bot action by now…