Same people screaming 1984 have five authenticator apps installed on their fingerprinted tracking device and 2fa with their phone number, and have no idea what 'sensors off' does.

Palpable irony present when a chat provider whom requires personally identifiable information to use their service complains about privacy...

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Terr_ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Same people screaming 1984 have five authenticator apps installed

"Yet you participate in society. Curious!"

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

	▲	Terr_ 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Follow-up/P.S.: There's a Doctorow piece [0] which I think is relevant here. It's about how individual refusal (e.g. to quit your job at an employer when they require an authenticator-app) is an inferior substitute for "real" politics on both a practical and emotional level. > It's obvious why we might prefer to substitute voting or shopping for politics: they're activities you do alone. You don't have to find anyone else to do them with you. [...] Individual consumption choices don't change the world, but if you've been convinced that the only way to change the world is by voting with your wallet then when the world stays terrible, you can only conclude that your friends and neighbors have ruined by things by voting (shopping) wrong. [... and] every political disappointment in your life is down to your friends' personal defects. [0] https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/purity-culture/

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big85 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Two-factor is one thing. They're mandating client-side scanning in every operating system. This was previously rejected for obvious privacy reasons.

There are already phones with an anti-nudity feature as a parental control option, but the key there is that it's optional. The major pivot with age verification is that all devices treat all users as a child until they identify themselves with a third party. This allows a rhetorical paradox that the controls are only for children, when they apply to adults too by default.

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HiPhish 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What's wrong with two-factor authentication? TOTP work without any network connection and only requires synchronized clocks to work. You could even do TOTP with pend and paper if you wanted (and were fast enough), no computer needed at all.

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pesus 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Personally, I only have authenticator apps because my job requires them. I don't see any contradiction in being opposed to things you're forced into.