I tend to agree with you in that most people are too addicted to the convenience. But yeah, Balaquina does make a good point. After all, a commonly cited reason as for why the Fediverse won't rival mainstream sites is that making an account is more complex. Even then, it's just choosing an instance, which isn't that hard, it's just more complicated in comparison to, say, Reddit or Twitter. So following the same logic, it very well could backfire if Spotify raises the barrier of entry (or barrier of continuous entry, for those who already have accounts that they will have to verify).

How do you suggest people pay for Spotify?

He's saying if you have a credit card to pay there's no need to verify (I think)

Edit: nah I'm wrong, cheers

A normal modern bank card (with 2FA) through a payment provider which obfuscates everything besides the name on your bank account and your bank account number (this will also share the country of your bank if you are in a SEPA region).
And since people younger than 18 can use that system, they cannot use that for verification.

Plus, you won't be at risk of spending money you don't have, and it doesn't negatively impact your credit score like even having a credit card does in some countries.

I just hate credit cards since they are like the worst payment method unless you want to dig a financial hole for yourself

I mean, the Spotify CEO invests in AI weaponry being used to murder kids in Gaza so the morally correct thing to do would be to leave Spotify over that.

Only if you’re bad with money. Nothing wrong with credit cards themselves, and most of them these days are credit/debit cards.

The age control of pointless when it comes to protecting the children.

But also this

The internet is based on this underlying trust. You are a true custodian!

Do you have any other good alternative to recommend? Nice quality, not too much tracking, low/fair price, nice recommendation algorithm, has lots of musics...

This.

But also this

Thousands of bytes!

Ah, yes. As we all know, periods start at 18, when you're a legal adult. It's illegal to have periods before then

You're right and I'd go a bit further: It's none of their business what your age even is, they need to know only one bit for their legal duties, over or under age of majority.

Basically what is really needed is a certificate of majority digitally signed by the government bound to some identifier, email address or full name. All this uploading faces or ID card scans is ridiculous.

Do it! I challenge you!
People nowdays won't drop an every day thing just like that.

me basically

Besides that, credit cards (and chipless debit cards) are unsecure? That receiving credit cards payments costs more in terms of administration costs?

That credit cards are a system designed for consumerism (you see this especially in the US) and that people who grew up with credit cards being the default/more common payment method are often worse with money?

There is a reason why you can only own credit cards if you are an adult, but you can own chipped debit cards earlier.

You're mostly supporting the industry that encouraged your favorite artists to kill themselves once they're not profitable anymore. Why do you think they keep blowing thelself up? The music industry is inherently exploitative.

Not to even mention all the corruption (payolas) going on.

You can probably get a pirate hat online for a few bucks. And there are plenty of discoverability systems not based on integration with a subscription service.

You just reminded me: A while back there was this slew of articles coming out of the tech press saying MP3 was now dead.

And why did they say that? Because the last Fraunhofer Patent on an MP3 related invention ran out.

Instead of reporting the format was now fully free, those idiots thought that meant it was now dead