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The enshitification will continue until morale improves.

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Lip service

For 90%+ of users, nothing changes. Most users never access age-restricted content or change their default safety settings. For those who do, we have an internal system that works to accurately determine your age.

“accurately” my ass.

We know many of you believe the right answer is not to do this at all. We hear you.

You obviously don’t.

the security incident last year involving our third-party customer service provider only adds to that skepticism. To be clear, we do not use that vendor for age assurance. In fact, we no longer work with them at all, and we’ve taken the lessons from that incident seriously.

You obviously haven’t.

We heard you, and we want to get this right. So here’s what’s happening: We’re delaying our global rollout to the second half of 2026.

We’re listening.

LOL you aren’t.

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I’m without question one of the 90% and I never thought they were going to require it for everyone. But I don’t like the idea that an algorithm is constantly writing a dossier about me to determine my “age” because I wasn’t fucking born yesterday.

Open source your shit and make it auditable or I’m not fucking using it anymore.

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Sounds promising but still not convincing.

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I didn’t read it nor do I care too. nothing from companies/corporations sounds promising anymore. it’s all lies. I have zero reason to trust companies since they continuously keep lighting the bridge on fire then apologize for lighting it on fire to then light another fire next to it.

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I did, you can tell it’s frightened

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We hear you

Yeah I bet you do.

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I don’t even care to read what companies say anymore. it’s all lies anyways so why bother. I assume they are always guilty first

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We hear you! We know you aren’t happy with our torment nexus implementation, but don’t worry, we’ve got so much data on most of you that we don’t need to put you through the torment nexus. And for the remaining 10%, we’ll still put you in the torment nexus, but you’ll be able to pick which colour you want your nexus to be!

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but you’ll be able to pick which colour you want your nexus to be!

^for an additional fee^

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