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Discord walks back age verification fears for most users
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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They didn't walk back shit, they upped the stakes by saying they use your chats to analyse your age. That's just as bad.
To think they weren't already doing that is naive. They hold a lot of liability hosting the amount of data they do, and that's without the obvious gain they'd have selling data.