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After a rocky start, Discord has delayed the global rollout of its age-verification policies following user backlash. Earlier this month, the messaging-based social platform announced that it would ...

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Discord, the popular online communication platform for gamers, said Wednesday it will delay its global age verification rollout after it received user criticism. Discord announced a phased rollout for ...

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Earlier this month, Discord faced significant pushback from its users after announcing plans for a global age verification rollout. As originally communicated, starting in March Discord users would ...

Update 2/24: This article was originally titled "Discord Drops Persona After Users Blast UK Age Checks And Data Practices". Per a statement we received from Discord after publishing, we've altered the ...

For years, Discord has been the digital living room of the internet: gamers, developers, creators, and entire online communities have called it home. But that home is starting to feel… monitored. And ...

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Last week, Discord users reported seeing prompts to submit personal information to Persona, a third-party age-verification service. As Discord commits to universal age-verification, the new measures ...

Shortly after Discord announced that all users will soon be defaulted to teen experiences until their ages are verified, the messaging platform faced immediate backlash. One of the major complaints ...

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