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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

www.404media.co /spotify-uk-age-check-verification-yoti/

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No, governments like the UK are forcing this.
- I loathe Spotify. But blame here falls on the UK government.
  Of course, if Spotify fought this half as hard as they fight Apple…
- compliance remains unacceptable
A strange choice given that you don't even need to have a face to enjoy music.
- The headline is misleading. It only applies if you want to watch videos tagged 18+.
  
  You say that as if it makes the idea somehow less insane. I hope the billionaire clique pushing this shit has miscalculated and there are still enough people not so far gone that they're ever going to let the technofascists scan their faces in exchange for the privilege of spending money and being advertised at.
- Finally, somebody looking out for the faceless among us.
I'm sure that will just push more people to get their music from soulseek and torrents.
- Governments will never understand that piracy is a service problem.
  
  Capitalism will never accept that piracy is the free market voting with it's wallet, because capitalism is actually not pro-free market
  
  Governments will never understand that resorting to extralegal measures in order to obtain what it is you want and need is due to difficulty in being able to procure it through legal channels, very broadly applicable
My family canceled our plan when they announced their investment in Helsing which makes AI weapons.
- Cancelled mine after they price hiked a dollar for the third time in like a year lol
The second i get this im deleting my account
How long until my grandparents send their ID and personal info to some scammer because they think they have to?
- Even just getting a picture risks this. It's so ridiculous. A TOTP code makes so much more sense.
Why are we all playing this game? Why not just say screw the UK? Isn't that easier?
Or is this just an excuse to up the surveillance and potential ad revanue?
- The UK is a decent sized market. It's harder to ignore than you'd think.
  
  For some context for Americans, the UK has about the same population as the two most populated US states, California and Texas, combined.
Oh no! Anyway...
Honestly Spotify is a terrible company and service, like all streaming. You own nothing. They pay artists peanuts.
Hope this leads to people buying music and/or supporting artists directly.
I'm glad I got all my shit off of there already.

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