Discord Receives Age Verification (support.discord.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/232256

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't understand how people are even able to use discord in the first place.

Every time I try to make an account, something goes wrong.

endless captcha loops
stuck in preview mode forever, no joins to a server ever succeed
immediate inexplicable ban
phonewalls right after creating account
immediate ban after providing a real phone number, that has never been used for discord
"our automated system is working correctly, appeal denied"

I have tried multiple different desktop computers, tablets and mobile devices, across different browsers, ISPs, physical locations and operating systems, with nothing in common and no VPN/proxy or anything like that. For years. It just does. not. work.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 11 months ago

You should check your IP against blacklists of Ip accounts. Mine was inexplicably on some Brazilian Blacklist that has taken to accusing others without evidence of deserving to be on this list, they want money and your life story and to get considered to be taken off. Hopefully instead they will get some us lawsuits.

I do not do anything untoward from this phone, reading news and social media is basically it.

But starting up new email accounts they get immediately Frozen because of it. I presume I pissed off the Israel super fans and they had me slipped on the list which is probably a good share of why this happened to me.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

different ISPs, physical locations

I think this covers the IP question...

[-] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago

Well if it is happening to you and not others I would presume their is some sort of piece of information connecting you and your other attempts jamming you up. You can just search for am I on The Blacklist and find the page to check.

https://dnschecker.org/ip-blacklist-checker.php