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Reddit in talks to use iris-scanning to verify users (www.semafor.com)

submitted 1 month ago by jimrob4@midwest.social to c/news@midwest.social

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[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is there a reddit post on this? I'd like to see what the users there think.

Edit: I found a few posts. My favorite comment: "If they did this they would cut out 8% of users since reddit is mostly bots."

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 23 points 1 month ago

Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

Yeah, no thanks.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

This should be in c/nottheonion.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, I'm sure this will be met with open arms by all the users. After all, certainly its only purpose is to protect the children. You DO want to protect children, right?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

I want to give them drugs and alcohol.

[–] jimrob4@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

Just when you think that site can't get any more enshittified

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Data scraping ratfucks.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They can eat a pile of shit, I never even used a real email account to sign up

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

Lol, my accounts were before emails were required.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

I welcome the next Reddit exodus

[–] catty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

And here's me looking twice wondering why it doesn't say "TheOnion"

[–] 2fm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Nope nope nope nope.

[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

They can #@€!%#s!@ ...

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well now I don't feel bad about getting banned there anymore!

[–] bishoponarope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Place phone camera to eye and bink your compliance

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Just curious, do the eyeball scans require living tissue? What if you lose an eye or get surgery like cornea replacement done?