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What @ethstatus charges for privacy:
• 2017 $0.00
• 2018 $0.00
• 2019 $0.00
• 2020 $0.00
• 2021 $0.00
• 2022 $0.00
• 2023 $0.00
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Privacy was never meant to be a premium feature.
Disney+ Price History, per month (ad-free)
• 2019 $6.99
• 2021 $7.99
• 2022 $10.99
• 2023 $13.99
• 2024 $15.99
• 2025 $18.99
• 2026 $21.49
It's a new annual ritual
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First Discord. Now Google and YouTube.
Apparently age verification now means using your search history, YouTube watch history, online activity and social graph to estimate your age.
And if AI age estimation gets it wrong?
You may need to verify with a government ID or face scan.
Google is now using Canadians' search and YouTube history to estimate whether they're under 18
Those identified as minors will get bedtime reminders and blocked access to adult apps
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Privacy goes beyond your messages!
Discord is rolling out its revamped age-check system with over 90% of users not expected to need ID verification
It estimates users' age groups using signals from their activity and account 🫣
A great reminder of how much metadata can reveal about you.
An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord from @svishnevskiy. Read the full blog here: discord.com/blog/safer-for-t…
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Over 80 browser extensions are legally selling the data of 6.5 million users.
Legally, because it's disclosed in the privacy policy.
Two-thirds of people never open that policy.
The loophole isn't hidden.
It's just unread.
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No age verification at the operating system level. 🖥️
No age verification at the app store level. ☎️
No age verification for apps. 🚫
No age verification anywhere online. Period. ✊
Not now. Not ever. ✋🔥
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Your experience matters more than our assumptions 💙
Using Status?
👍 What feels smooth
👎 What gets in the way
🔍 What you wish worked differently
From chats and communities to wallet, onboarding, notifications, desktop/mobile, or privacy features we want to hear it all.
What should Status improve next? 👇
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“Protect the kids” somehow keeps ending with “identify everyone.”
🚨 THE AGE-VERIFIED INTERNET ARRIVES
Starting Jan. 25, 2027, *most* social media platforms must confirm users’ ages before offering algorithmic feeds or late-night notifications.
“Protect the kids” now means profile everyone.
Reject ALL age verification laws!
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A multi-billion dollar company is turning Discord, youtube, X into a mass surveillance tool the second its IP gets threatened.
Take-Two is demanding personal info emails, phone numbers, IPs and device IDs linked to ~100k Discord users across multiple servers.
Your data isn’t just collected. It’s monetized, used, and now pulled into investigations too.
‼️ BREAKING: Take-Two has named the X and YouTube accounts it wants unmasked over the GTA VI leaks.
A DMCA petition filed August 21 in Manhattan federal court names three Cyberleek copycats CyberLeeks, Surfer24k and CyberLeek_ar_io and asks the clerk to subpoena X and Google for the identities behind them.
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If you're seeing this
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STOP assuming a messaging app is private if its code is closed source.
If nobody can inspect what it actually does with your data, you're trusting a promise. 😭
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$100M+ in Bitcoin was stolen because of one thing most users never think about: how random is your seed phrase, really?
Here’s how secure seed generation works and how Status approaches it ↓
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Using digital services almost always leaves some traces behind
The question is:
✦ how many
✦ how linkable
✦ and who gets to profit from them
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E2EE hides the content.
Not the footprint.
Your IP, account, API key, auth session, provider route, model usage, request IDs, billing events, and metadata can still be visible.
Privacy is not just encryption.
It’s the architecture around it.
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