Take a look at how Firefox marketshare rose when Chrome killed ad-blockers, or how did Discord’s marketshare drop when Discord started asking for age verification, and there’s your answer.
The average person doesn’t use ad block so, for many, nothing changed. I’ve genuinely tried to convince some family members to install one but they just don’t care.
The discord one is interesting, I personally never received an age verification request so I wouldn’t have known this was happening unless I saw headlines about it. I bet the situation is similar for a lot of others.
Wgen i heard facebook demands your phone number, i was like: oh wow, no one is gonna use facebook anymore. No one seemed to care and gace their phone number. Abd that’s to use fucking facebook.
Phone number is not as intrusive as an ID - at least to me. People are used to handing out their telephone number to whichever webshop they navigate to to buy whatever gadget they believe to need. That’s quite a step further from requiring to whip out your phone to scane your ID in order to even access reddit, youtube, tiktok, or xitter.
But I understand your cynicism. There are privacy advocates who ask their users to join a Discord group in order to talk about the latest privacy topics. We have opensource devs loudly and proudly supporting big tech - some even demand you buy big tech hardware to use their opensource software.
How many people will start using Linux after they ate prompted for their ID?
Take a look at how Firefox marketshare rose when Chrome killed ad-blockers, or how did Discord’s marketshare drop when Discord started asking for age verification, and there’s your answer.
The average person doesn’t use ad block so, for many, nothing changed. I’ve genuinely tried to convince some family members to install one but they just don’t care.
The discord one is interesting, I personally never received an age verification request so I wouldn’t have known this was happening unless I saw headlines about it. I bet the situation is similar for a lot of others.
Wgen i heard facebook demands your phone number, i was like: oh wow, no one is gonna use facebook anymore. No one seemed to care and gace their phone number. Abd that’s to use fucking facebook.
Phone number is not as intrusive as an ID - at least to me. People are used to handing out their telephone number to whichever webshop they navigate to to buy whatever gadget they believe to need. That’s quite a step further from requiring to whip out your phone to scane your ID in order to even access reddit, youtube, tiktok, or xitter.
But I understand your cynicism. There are privacy advocates who ask their users to join a Discord group in order to talk about the latest privacy topics. We have opensource devs loudly and proudly supporting big tech - some even demand you buy big tech hardware to use their opensource software.
Hope dies last though.