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mdavidnyesterday at 9:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

It boggles my mind that they need a photo ID to prove that my 9-year-old account with a saved credit card belongs to an adult. The linked Steam account is 18 years old.


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MaxikCZyesterday at 11:17 PM

they don't do this for age verification, they do this to build dataset to sell.

doctorpanglossyesterday at 10:31 PM

Yeah because they don’t haha. It boggles the mind because the headline is clickbait.

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