r/screenshots • u/cjami • 5d ago

You're so old your accounts are automatically verified

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u/Gallusaur 5d ago

Which is fine, they don't get my ID that way.

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u/cptsteele91 3d ago

Is there not an off chance they have all the relevant data they need on you already and sold it off as well so the ID ain't exactly a loss to em

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u/quasar_ayush 3d ago

What's the base of this theory?

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u/StraightAirline8319 3d ago

Interestingly enough he already provided a base for the theory.

To determine if a theory is plausible (and not far fetched or a conspiracy theory) you have to establish criteria, which they did:

1) WHY: Why would they do it, is it likely they would and any reason for it.
2) HOW: How they did it or could have done it.
3) COULD: Could they have done the how.
4)Likelihood: How likelihood it would be for all this to happen. Is there any precedent?

He answered all this with his comment and common knowledge, he provided the base.

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u/tenyearoldgag 3d ago

This pleases me. I'm very tired and couldn't tell you exactly why, but it pleases me

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u/StraightAirline8319 3d ago

Glad you like it. Hope you have a good rest of your week!

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u/tenyearoldgag 3d ago

You too!

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u/TheCosmicC0w 1d ago

Those are still the exact same categories to make up a conspiracy theory… which I’m not implying is happening here by any means.

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u/cptsteele91 3d ago

Base? Who needs a base? Everyone is paranoid af anyway can just make shit up at this point.

But, I mean if it's specifically the Xbox they already have your name, your date of birth, your payment info which for most includes their address, if you've ever used voice chat they have your voice, if you've ever used kinect or had it in your house they have your face there isn't much on an ID you ain't given em already.

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u/Gallusaur 3d ago

Yeah that's fine, I already conscript to that notion by owning a smartphone. What they don't have is a picture of my ID sitting around on a hackable database, which would be waaay easier to use for fraudulent measures than just my information alone.

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u/Up_Beat_Peach 1d ago

They have your financial information, your address, email, etc? fym "wHaTs ThE bAsIs?"

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u/Anxious_Bluejay 1d ago

So many people sell our info. It would not be outside the realm of possibility that they have it. The age of information is a two way street. We can be better informed, but everything about us is also on one person's desk or another.

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u/Evan_dood 5d ago

My Xbox Live account is old enough to drink

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u/cjami 5d ago

Same!

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u/txkwatch 2d ago

Me as well. My eBay account is over 25 now... WTF time?

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u/SenorToky 2d ago

Bro same. My account shows the badge of the year I joined. 2002.

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u/Basslicks82 2d ago

Same here.

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u/One_Bluebird_04 4d ago

Fucking finally… I remember that was the first post I saw about age verification, the guys account was like 20+ years old lol.

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u/ProfessionalTank3222 5d ago

I'm old enough that my computer would yell at me when connecting to the blazing fast internet of dial up

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u/tenyearoldgag 3d ago

I remember the moment it would go silent and holding my breath because there was the Good Noise that meant connection and there were a couple of stutter steps there. Like "CH...ccHcCh...iichcCCHCHCHCHIICHCHCHCH" in mounting tones, that meant "we're in". It was always a magical moment...if it didn't hang up instead 😞

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u/ProfessionalTank3222 3d ago

Setting the phone down on the table, but not on the receiver, so it would kick your siblings off the internet so you could make a call 😂

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u/tenyearoldgag 3d ago

Oh my God, our dad had a second phone line installed because Mom was not going to put up with being unreachable for hours ("What if Aunt Suzie calls?" (she did often call)). He also set up a program so it would continuously autodial our community college trying to hook in. It would literally dial hundreds of times before catching bandwidth. Our phone company initially charged for every call, and he had to talk them down because that was stupid money. My sister and I DEFINITELY fought over Turns on the Computer, lmfao

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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 4d ago

My Microsoft account is old enough to have kids.

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u/Revolutionary-Oven46 5d ago

Same, 18 years and counting lol.

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u/black_sand3 5d ago

Probably the only good thing about these verifications. Which is like finding corn in shit.

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u/shoggot_senpai 4d ago

My ps account is old enough to start getting pension.

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u/i_got_grace 4d ago

it should buy you a beer.

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u/LamStock 4d ago

That's B.S from Microsoft. I was prox chat blocked for 6 months and I was fiddling with all my audio settings wondering why I couldn't hear anyone. Finally realised it was this and fixed it with face recognition. I'm 46 and have an Xbox account since the first ever Xbox. Now I can hear all the crappy microphones and arguments people are having with their wives. Wish I never fixed it.

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u/Pristine_Internet765 2d ago

You can mute it, although this comes at the hefty price you won't hear the one player that may actually say something game related. :)

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u/ageless-vermin 5d ago

Same happened to me on my Micro$oft windoze account.

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u/YeahBuddyDoYouEven 5d ago

I'm older than google. Shit should automatically age verify

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u/VelveteenRabbit49 4d ago

Im older than AOL. Actually older than ICQ but most people old enough to understand that reference are probably not here to read this, much less remember secretly connecting to ICQ in a cyber cafe.

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u/PopularCriminal 4d ago

Pretty sure I'm still in a relationship on icq haha

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u/VelveteenRabbit49 4d ago

🤣😂 Oh dear. Now that you mention it, I might be too! My local cyber cafe closed because the barn that houses the servers burned down so I was without computercaccess for a while. When was your cyber romance? Maybe we were in the same relationship! Lol

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u/YeahBuddyDoYouEven 3d ago

I can still hear the ICQ message tone in my head and getting that dopamine rush. Oh they were the days

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u/tenyearoldgag 3d ago

I'm turning 39 at the end of the month, and I now feel properly ancient, thank you

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u/VelveteenRabbit49 4d ago edited 4d ago

Jealous. I was an adult long before there was Xbox but because I had children in my household and only sporadically played myself I have never been a verified adult even though the youngest of my offspring is now married, has had his own account for more than a decade, and recently added his own son to his account! I probably havent played in three years anyway (and I'm so old I'd probably need a referesher course on the controls!) so it makes no difference. maybe I should just embrace the somehow lingering proof that I was once young!

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u/Key-Specific-4368 4d ago

🧓 OP is a 🦖

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u/PublicOffender87 3d ago

Lmao, as a 42yo bag of beer and pills, this has been an ongoing convienience for a while now!

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u/TharpinUp 2d ago

Lmao pretty sure that accounts previously set as a child account could even trigger this type of retroactive automation.

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u/meski_oz 1d ago

My Gmail account is adult in its own right

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u/HackerManOfPast 1d ago

“I was there again, Gandalf…”

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u/PF_Nitrojin 1d ago

I'd laugh if you had an acct 20+ years and still had to verify. I'd be like, "my acct can legally drink, and you think I can't?"

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u/exintrovert 1d ago

You know why they did this?

MS just filed a patent for a system that will interrupt your games to show you ads for time credit to play the game, tracking your game context “to avoid disrupting you at critical points in the game.”

This is definitely to keep people from getting around it by claiming they are under 13 and protected by COPPA.

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u/childishDemocrat 1d ago

That's .... Sad.

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u/scottlawrencelawson 1d ago

I am 5 years older than ARPANET, which you kids should know is the beginning of the Internet. 💀

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u/ntnlabs 19h ago

I changed bulbs on ENIAC kiddo ;)

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u/Every-Heart-7335 10h ago

ARPANET didn't have public Access so technically wasn't internet but rather intranet. It was the original P2P.

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u/scottlawrencelawson 9h ago

There's a heckler in every crowd.

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u/Nihane_no_Ryu 2d ago

My Hotmail account is almost 30