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My theory is that age verification is just another way to push human verification. These large tech companies need a way to verify a user is a real person and n
by LandenLove 3mo ago
My theory is that age verification is just another way to push human verification. These large tech companies need a way to verify a user is a real person and not an AI bot. Both for displaying ads to real users and cutting down on spam.
Nobody would support a "give away my anonymity online so I can be shown an ad for Coca Cola" bill. But it's easier to sell a law to boomers and lawmakers if you use the disguise of "It's for the children ." As if any of these companies care about the well being of children. See Meta confirming their platforms affect the mental health of children and doing nothing about it. Also platforms like TikTok and YouTube optimizing their algorithms for stealing user's attention spans.
- tryauuum 3mo agoThe ad companies I think would want the opposite If they cannot distinguish real people from bots they can just charge more for more ads shown !
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- LandenLove 3mo agoI imagine that the companies who purchase these ads will see a drop in conversions and start to ask questions.
- try-working 3mo agomany platform companies probably do not want to verify that a user is real, except in certain niche cases, as bots help them pump their numbers.
- LandenLove 3mo agoIt might be a nice stock boost in the short term, but the goal for a majority of these companies is to sell ads. If advertisers see a drop in conversions, I doubt the platforms could keep the fake user ruse going for long.
- microgpt 3mo agoThat's why recaptcha is now doing human verification via mobile phone QR scan
- LandenLove 3mo agoI just heard about that. Won't work in the long term. Either the spammers will create a tool to bypass it, or they will continue to run services in third world countries where people complete captchas for pennies.
- maigret 3mo agoIndeed a lot of social media platforms are used by foreign powers to create discord. Human psychology is much more attentive to negative messages and this is too easy to weaponize. A solution against that would probably be world changing. It would have to preserve anonymity still of course.
- LandenLove 3mo agoYou are right that foreign powers abuse these platforms, but I don't personally believe that the platforms care. They just want to sell ads. Controversy will likely drive more traffic and more ad conversions.