But then how can we sell your email to our 1873 partners?

Come with me back to IRC land. The water's fine.

(Technically you should log in to nickserv, but that's it)

It's waxed and waned.

I remember when you had to log into everything, but there wasn't much to visit. Then people started using the Internet en mas and selling ads was the market maker. So you didn't need to log in, but you did get the most malicious JavaScript ever written trying to jam pop-ups under your cursor.

Now we've somehow managed to achieve the worst of both worlds

Unless it's got literally nothing of note on it, I try to make a habit to log into everything manually every time. Some sites find this "suspicious" and make me check my phone and email to get in, which can be a little annoying.

jesus fucking tell me about it. When the internet was the domain of the nerd doing cool shit because it was cool, instead of... ugh

I can answer that but we’ll need to confirm your identify with a pic of your titties. /s

Lol no, they aren't going to try and find your ID in online data breaches. It's a joke about these "send us your ID to confirm your age" things get breached all the time

I believe it's a post from a dude in xitter named Soren Iverson, he does posts like this all the time. Basically just black mirror-esque tech site updates.

While the data breach part isn't real, the rest of it is.

It's related to Australian social media ban for teenagers https://discord.com/safety/introducing-new-teen-by-default-experiences-for-australian-users It's not discord's fault, they are just complying with a ridiculous law.

Lmfao you don't read the community you're in?

Makes me think of that guy who does mockups of hellworld tech concepts

So sad to me that craigslist, or even just fucking yard sales, and cash seem to be going down in use in the states. Cash is king, baby