OK, ty , exit Sony
So you need to do a face ID to play games in PlayStation in some countries now??? WTF
Authorities: “You’re reporting wut?”
All these scumbag companies are making it easier and easier for me to avoid their products.
I’ve pretty much gone back to my 2000s era mindset of “I don’t need a smart phone when I have PCs in front of me at work and at home.”
But really it’s more like I already have an old smart phone but hate using it and never want to have to upgrade. We’ll see what Motorola can make happen.
How is Sony connected to this? I only see references to the Yeti and Graphite OSs. (Misspelled because some commenters say they can’t say the name of an Os for some reason?)
TLDR; Playstation uses Yoti fot age verification
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1txn8di/did_i_just_got_threatened_by_yoti_age/
I guess the time to sell my PS5 is fast approaching. Let’s see if Sony says anything about this. Either way, the moment my console asks me to verify my age, it’s getting sold.
Never even bought one. I couldn’t find anything compelling enough this generation to buy one and that decision has paid off.
I’m not sure there’s a direct connection to Sony here (I use a Sony phone and am thus interested in this).
The initial post of the linked Forum thread does not make any connection. The accompanying reddit thread makes the claim that “PlayStation/Sony recently introduced a company called Yoti for age verification” but Sony is not mentioned on Yoti’s wikipedia.
What I am reading in the screenshots is pretty fucked up though.
So just Yoti reporting users to authorities for using Grapheneos, got it.
Even the screenshots have the odor of bullshit. This particular community loves to play the paranoid victim, which is unfortunate.
This particular community loves to play the paranoid victim, which is unfortunate.
I agree, but Sony literally helped invent DRM. Sony went all-in on “fuck you” to their customers back when we all adored them for the Walkman.
And it feels like they have only rarely done better, since then, after exhausting all other options.
So I agree - we do jump there too quick.
But when we are discussing Sony, the ire is valid anyway.
Everyone at Sony can go fuck themselves - today, yesterday and just generally.
Don’t forget about Sony rootkits on music CDs
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Wow, thanks Sony. Still being cunts about copyright I see; nothing has changed since the SecuROM/XCP days…
I swear I haven’t bought anything Sony since that happened. There are just betrayals that go too far to ever be forgiven.
To be completely honest with you, Sony hasn’t released an interesting product in about 20 years anyway
Their OLED TVs have the best upscaling tech and I am glad they still support 4K Blu-rays because physical media is important to me. Otherwise most of their products have better alternatives.
They also make great projectors.
On the TV side, they sold 51% to Chinese TCL, so I expect things will start going downhill fast from here, which is a shame.
This is unexpected, given that Sony had a really great support for allowing bootloader unlock and support for AOSP. Till today you could flash Jolla’s SailfishOS on their devices.
Probably has more to do with the fact that GrapheneOS doesn’t implement age verification thinking about it, I’m still gonna hold a grudge about SecuROM and XCP though
Till today you could flash Jolla’s SailfishOS on their devices.
Pretty sure that’s still possible. I mean this whole post is about someone flashing an alternative ROM to their Sony device.
Your system experienced an unexpected error. Please reboot your computer. Thank you, the peeps at Sony (™️)
I did not know what Yoti was doing.
Our proprietary suite of AI services include NIST-evaluated passive liveness, facial recognition, as well as our patented SICAP injection attack detection tool.
Can’t say I am surprised.
Not unexpected from Sony. Just don’t buy their shit please.
Wow that’s pretty fucked.
Hang on. You can’t play games on a PlayStation without giving your ID?
I know its a whole thing about GTA6 requiring ID but unsure if its rumors or what
Sonytch
Wuuut?? Please be clickbait! If not… What the actual fracking wuuuut!
