This is it. Theyve been going after encrypted messaging apps for a long time, ig they realized theyre not getting anywhere and figured to just hit it head on.

The internet has always circumvented this kind of shit, just look at TPB. The ones who are getting really beaten up by this is the older generations and the ones lacking technical know-how.

If something's finally going to force the industry to curb its bullshit, this might just be it. Once you annoy normal people, it's all over. They seriously underestimate how many people would just stop using Spotify, or Youtube, or whatever other platform it is

The worst was watching porn on spotify...

While I want to agree. I feel like normal people are still not gonna give a shit.

Who taught you sex is a drug? As long as words mean their definitions, it's categorically not. Plus it's probably kinda harmful to pile on the stigma already surrounding sex by conflating it with drugs and all the stigma that comes with that.

Hopefully I'm wrong, but it's kinda giving a nofap pseudoscience red flag to me.

Parents definitely should be teaching their kids about this stuff at the appropriate time, but they should stick to the facts.

Spotify fans

“Fans”?

not yet, but the wikimedia foundation has been fighting against it expecting that it would be a class 1 site and require it.

that's like saying Amazon fans really lol

“Normal” people would put in their child’s social security number if it meant $2.99 off their subscription.

We have to protect wikipedia

In Sweden pretty much anybody has Bank Id, an app which is connected to a bank account and which can function as a valid identification.

App belongs a private company, but it's still trustworthy and everybody can sign government docs with that.

This is how you should do age verification, through a third party app, not like any site will get your id/picture to just end in their DBs ready to be stolen.

Every government should create an app for the online id, I don't get why this seems so hard to achieve.

It's super trustworthy bro I swear

What are they supposed to do? Pull away from the UK?

ngl, Spotify has become hot ass these days

Does anyone have a good podcast app to replace Spotify that will keep track of progress across multiple devices? Bonus points if I can self host.

I use audiobookshelf. Obviously for audiobooks mainly, but it does podcasts and it works well.

I always used podcast player. Never had any issues before.

Podcast Player - Apps on Google Play

A podcast, audiobook, radio player. Listen and subscribe to all podcasts.

(play.google.com)

Protect from what? I mean seriously. Most of us (guys at least) probably saw porn way before we were old enough and most of us probably didn't end up as rapists or pedophiles. It's not a good thing by any means, but it really feels like we're trying harder to keep sexual material from entering their brains than we are trying to keep them fed, clothed, educated, housed, healthy, loved, and physically safe. Of all the things I mentioned the last seven have a monumentally greater affect on their success and well-being as an adult.

I'm not convinced. Look at how Netflix made bank on killing off "sharing is caring."

People are lazy, and if they want their easy Spotify fix, I fear they'll hand over their information and move on with their day.

Let this be a reminder to never turn away from piracy. It needs to constantly be in the background and if any company gets like they always do, then it comes back out. But if we let the knowledge fade away then it's impossible to rebuild it.