Let's end this bullshit once and for all, and go FOSS.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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Wow that's pretty fucked.
OK, ty , exit Sony
I guess the time to sell my PS5 is fast approaching. Let's see if Sony says anything about this. Either way, the moment my console asks me to verify my age, it's getting sold.
Never even bought one. I couldn’t find anything compelling enough this generation to buy one and that decision has paid off.
Gaming then: Three decent games a year
Gaming now: One decent game every three years.
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Yeah. I was a fan of PS exclusive games. Horizon, GOW, Ghost of Tsushima, etc., but no game is so good that I'm willing to put up with their bullshit. Its time to drop Sony for me.
The only reason I want one is for a remake anyway. I love Demons Souls but not that much
The last console I bought was a PS3. I only bought it because it was one of the cheapest bluray players at the time. The games were way too expensive. Now I only play PC games and I wait a few years and buy them when they are on sale and have hopefully had all of the major bugs fixed.
Not unexpected from Sony. Just don't buy their shit please.
I'm not sure there's a direct connection to Sony here (I use a Sony phone and am thus interested in this).
The initial post of the linked Forum thread does not make any connection. The accompanying reddit thread makes the claim that "PlayStation/Sony recently introduced a company called Yoti for age verification" but Sony is not mentioned on Yoti's wikipedia.
What I am reading in the screenshots is pretty fucked up though.
So just Yoti reporting users to authorities for using Grapheneos, got it.
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Hang on. You can't play games on a PlayStation without giving your ID?
I know its a whole thing about GTA6 requiring ID but unsure if its rumors or what
I did not know what Yoti was doing.
Our proprietary suite of AI services include NIST-evaluated passive liveness, facial recognition, as well as our patented SICAP injection attack detection tool.
Can't say I am surprised.
So it turns out Yoti has a Guardian Council, as well as an Ethics and Trust Committee, both intended to keep them on the rails: https://www.yoti.com/blog/doing-things-the-yoti-way-guardian-council-ethics-and-trust-committee
They are also a B Corp.
So either there's a way to make them realise this is a gross (and unethical) mistake. Or it's another proof that self-regulation by tech companies works as well as kids grading their own homework.
I am not going to ever buy Sony/Yoti devices now.
Grapheme is illegal? Didn't know
How is Sony connected to this? I only see references to the Yeti and Graphite OSs. (Misspelled because some commenters say they can’t say the name of an Os for some reason?)
TLDR; Playstation uses Yoti fot age verification
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1txn8di/did_i_just_got_threatened_by_yoti_age/
So, Sony uses Yoti — and it’s using a callback method so users can complete the Yoti verification flow by scanning QR code on their phone, similar to how OAuth2 allows? But if your phone has Graphene, the flow won’t work and instead triggers notification to local authority that someone tried multiple times to “bypass” it or something? Basically forwarding their own sever errors, due to incompatible clients, to the authorities?
Is that the right understanding?
Sonytch