And thus begins the three-legged race between imaged-based age verification and kids. (Prediction: the kids will win, but it will take the other side a looooong time to admit it.)
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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The winners will be the middle men selling fixes for the fixes.
You can’t pull one over on these kids. They have tons of free time and none of the responsibility of adulthood, they’re gonna bypass whatever the fuck you put in front of them.
I was that kid that refused to be constrained and I’m so fucking proud of this generation for carrying on the legacy.
Same. Now I’m an adult who refuses to be constrained.
My kid last year in 5th grade (or maybe even the year before?) and his classmates figured out they could use shared Google Docs on their school accounts to have chats with each other, during school. The parent side of me rolled my eyes but the 80s kid in me was legitimately proud. Did I narc on them? Hell no.
The one hilarious thing is that all sorts of new social issues arise with this kind of workaround. Document names get changed, someone deletes something that someone else thinks is important, etc., and they have to work it out. So it’s a learning experience, for sure!
Lol my kids did the same thing. Kinda proud of those lil hooligans.
we did this in the late 2000s when schools banned chat programs. Just working in Google docs teach.
I did this in school like immediately lol
+1 just for using "narc". Which by the way, reminds me every time, of the arcade game of the same name. Loved that game. 🚀
Arguing about Google Docs will prepare them for the corporate world
WHY CANT WE JUST USE A WIKI???!211!
Sorry, I just had a flashback to my previous job where we used google docs.
The only thing that taught me more about computers than trying to get porn is trying to pirate software.
Lmao I didn't had "bypassing corpo surveillance with a vtuber software" on my 2026 bingo
Have they learned nothing since people used screenshots of death stranding the first this technology was used on a major platform?
If it works with such basic 3d models then what is stopping people from using an ai generated or stolen picture?
Kinda makes me think the goal is not to keep kids safe, its to avoid accountability when kids end up not being safe.
It was not screenshots. The entire point of the Death Stranding thing was that you had a live camera feed of a face that passes the "liveliness" checks that prevent you from using static pictures.
Oh that detail is a TIL
FOSS
Pick the best replacement option and run with it.
You gotta sell your friends and/or fam on it, though
Good. And lets hope it's not even the only one.
how about just NOT using discord?
That‘s honestly less surprising or impressive than people using Death Stranding for that.
Cool that it is possible but I rather ditch Discord when this is forced upon me.
Someone had made a bypass hack that didn't even need 3D anything, only generated metadata, but the ID vendor has patched it: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/