So, Discord is the latest platform to fall victim to mandatory ID age verification. People are, unsurprisingly, not very happy about the situation, and I can hardly blame them. It's been less than six months since a massive leak saw more than 70,000 government-issued ID photos exposed, along with a claimed 5.5 million user records.
Reddit is awash with furious posts and commenters planning to cancel their subscriptions to Discord Nitro (the 'premium' version of the service) or stop using the app altogether. The new verification rules, which are set to be rolled out globally (meaning no VPN will save you from this clown show), follow an implementation in the UK back in July last year, which drew a more localized outcry, but clearly not enough pushback for Discord's upper leadership to reconsider their position.
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