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Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve (www.youtube.com)

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Valve refused to comment for the video.

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[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

Honestly, Valve should just ask for proof that you are 18+ if you want to sell items on Steam market or trade them.

Easiest solution IMO.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

When they were asked to implement age verification in Germany, they simply pulled anything off their platform in the country that would require it instead. Mind you Germany has a system that makes age verification anonymous so if privacy concerns you, you could just implement it. (Almost no platform does because they want your data though.)

Valve doesn’t want to touch age verification with a 10 yard stick and that tells me it is probably the way to go here. Because once they have it, the path for more regulations is clear.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

In this arena, more regulation is needed. Anonymous age verification is a good idea, but I question the actual anonymity. It usually depends on trust of some entity. And I just can't fathom an entity that can really be trusted.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago

It uses the government ID, which has a built in NFC chip. You can use a phone in combination with your ID and it's pin to verify your age online. The ID scanner app will tell you which parameters the website requests from your ID, and its possible to only request the birthdate.

I don't like the system, but it is truly anonymous

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Sounds like it is only anonymous if you fully trust the app. That app has all your information, and the site you are trying to access. And I bet it is completely closed source. It also likely has logs about what sires it is giving information to. Not who's info in that log. But elsewhere it probably has logs on who's id it verified. Get access to both, and software can start to crunch the numbers and figure out who went where. That if course is assuming they don't decide in the future that it is worth just keeping that data together in one spot. There is just no entity that could manage that app which wouldn't have a motive to use the data and power it has.

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Bit invasive if you have to provide photo id...

[-] 50MYT@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

How often can one get a credit card at under the age of 18?

Surely that is a decent measure of it.

Also age of account? Mine is 21 in just over a week...

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

Also age of account? Mine is 21 in just over a week...

Then there will be a market for steam accounts (if there isn't one yet)

[-] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

There definitely is already a resale market for Steam accounts, mostly used by cheaters or scammers who want a legitimate-looking account with no game or trade bans.