No, governments like the UK are forcing this.
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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I loathe Spotify. But blame here falls on the UK government.
Of course, if Spotify fought this half as hard as they fight Apple…
compliance remains unacceptable
A strange choice given that you don't even need to have a face to enjoy music.
Finally, somebody looking out for the faceless among us.
The headline is misleading. It only applies if you want to watch videos tagged 18+.
You say that as if it makes the idea somehow less insane. I hope the billionaire clique pushing this shit has miscalculated and there are still enough people not so far gone that they're ever going to let the technofascists scan their faces in exchange for the privilege of spending money and being advertised at.
There should be strong pushback. You need to be quite insane to let someone scan your face when accessing insert random fetish porn.
You're overlooking the question as to exactly who gauges the content to decide whether it's 18+.
Song disparaging the autocracy? 18+.
How long now until I'm going to have to have back-alley surgery to replace my eyes as the only means of blocking ads and remaining anonymous, ala Minority Report? 🤔
Hello, Mr Yakamoto. How are those tank tops working out?
I'm sure that will just push more people to get their music from soulseek and torrents.
Governments will never understand that piracy is a service problem.
Capitalism will never accept that piracy is the free market voting with it's wallet, because capitalism is actually not pro-free market
Capitalism accepts it, thats why corporations lobby for governments to be more aggressive on piracy, while they keep squeezing profits. When governments should just give the corporations the middle finger.
Governments will never understand that resorting to extralegal measures in order to obtain what it is you want and need is due to difficulty in being able to procure it through legal channels, very broadly applicable
The second i get this im deleting my account
Cancelled my account this morning, enough is enough.
My family canceled our plan when they announced their investment in Helsing which makes AI weapons.
Cancelled mine after they price hiked a dollar for the third time in like a year lol
High-tech western military investments in an age of Russian aggression is actually a good thing to do. And it's even European instead of US or Israel.
I see no reason not to fully support this. Sure, a pacifist world would be awesome, but that would require a lot of things to happen that are not realistic at all. The alternative to european defense investments is not peace, it's death and oppression.
Weapons, but especially digital weapons, will always be turned upon their subordinate populace if it suits the oligarchy
Perhaps, although when was the last time that happened in the west?
Literally all the time.
Every major piece of tech in use by police domestically was built originally for military use. Every large police department in the US operates fixed-wing surveillance drones, stingrays/imsi-catchers, camera-based tracking systems, etc. All but the smallest departments receive tons of milsurp vehicles, weapons, and gear. Night vision and thermal imaging systems were military tech, and now they're standard for police. CS gas was military gear (until it was banned under the Geneva Convention), and now it's used exclusively by police.
And that's just use of military tech against us by police. Get into domestic surveillance by 3-letter agencies, and it's even worse.
How long until my grandparents send their ID and personal info to some scammer because they think they have to?
Even just getting a picture risks this. It's so ridiculous. A TOTP code makes so much more sense.
Why are we all playing this game? Why not just say screw the UK? Isn't that easier?
Or is this just an excuse to up the surveillance and potential ad revanue?
The UK is a decent sized market. It's harder to ignore than you'd think.
For some context for Americans, the UK has about the same population as the two most populated US states, California and Texas, combined.
Oh no! Anyway...
Honestly Spotify is a terrible company and service, like all streaming. You own nothing. They pay artists peanuts.
Hope this leads to people buying music and/or supporting artists directly.
I'm glad I got all my shit off of there already.