I can see why Reddit needs to secure the user base. As not accounts proliferate they need to be able to demonstrate verified real users to their advertisers. Unfortunately for privacy, this will be widespread, in that case. I'm opting out.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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No human needs this, this is the march of the companies against humanity.
Ahh so they'll use this to eliminate bots and multi-account trolls right?
right??????!!?!?
lol. That stupid Orb thing is still around?
And you need to donate a kidney.
Hey, it's reddit, it'll be worth it to see all those ai bots talk to eachother, Right?
So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can't achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.
And I was worried that it was the Australian Governments Digital ID shit that would be what gets in my way. You know what reddit, just do it. It would be the kick I need to completely drop reddit.
It reminds me of the eyeballs in linqspace in Beneath a Steel Sky.
Glad i left Reddit a while back