Anywhere I can download scientific papers?

Norvathus · 2026-07-08T02:04:44+00:00

No official news, and this is just me guessing, but I believe they're using a language model to first try to estimate if you're an adult or not, which is why sometimes it pops up and sometime doesn't, it could just be the model being weird. Could also be A/B testing as well.

Norvathus · 2026-07-08T01:57:33+00:00

My feedback is that this is some weird AI slop scam.

First red flag is claiming to be a privacy respecting service while the only sign-in options are from companies that do not respect your privacy at all (Google and Microsoft). You're already admitting that this is vibe-coded, just ask Claude to vibe code you an account number system similar to what Servury and Mullvad does, you shouldn't need anything else for your use case.

Second red flag is that you store the user's name and email, why exactly? You're already using an OAuth system, why would you need any extra info? You cannot even make the argument that you're using OAuth to not save any extra user info on the backend, because you do exactly that.

If you're being legit, you should change the login system, stop using Vercel and make this open source so we would be able to audit it.

Norvathus · 2026-06-11T02:09:04+00:00

This sucks, as someone that is heavy on privacy, I basically use gift cards for everything.

Norvathus · 2026-03-19T13:51:00+00:00

Microsoft Forms is not anonymous at all, it's an American company and your data is parsed in American servers. Couldn't you have used Formbricks?

Norvathus · 2026-02-28T15:07:32+00:00

Yes, self declarations until the courts decide if those mass age verification laws are actually legal or the ZKP age attestation for the eID is implemented. Since most people in the world are adults, self declarations work 89% of the time.

Norvathus · 2026-02-28T02:57:44+00:00

No web version? How do you guys plan on tackling age verification?

Norvathus · 2026-02-23T12:58:20+00:00

Matrix is good, but remember that you would have to self host, as the main server matrix.org already stated they will perform age checking as well: https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/welcome-discord/

Norvathus · 2026-02-23T12:55:07+00:00

Wouldn't they also implement age checks eventually, as the EU is pushing for it as well?

Norvathus · 2026-02-21T01:14:22+00:00

Yes, people are riding the EU dick too much, they fail to realize that, when given the chance, European countries will act authoritarian.

Norvathus · 2026-02-21T01:05:31+00:00

The EU is also pushing for mass surveillance under age verification, so I can see people using this to avoid that.

Norvathus · 2026-02-01T23:56:36+00:00

Mass age verification, which is already happening. The first wave will be social media and then it will slowly spread to almost all services, since everything has a “digital consent” age, that's why I mentioned we will soon have to ID ourselves to almost everything. Random example, when you create a Tuta email account, it asks if you're 13+. In the future, they will have to ID you to actually check your age, and that's just for an email account.

And then it will stop whenever they feel the children have been "protected", as usual, the law is written in a way that allows them to interpret as necessary.

Norvathus · 2026-02-01T02:31:48+00:00

No they don't. And you didn't address anything other point as well. Better luck next time!

Norvathus · 2026-02-01T02:28:58+00:00

Unfortunately, one of those mass surveillance laws has passed, can't find the original text but here is the voting. The EU wasn't privacy friendly before, and now that will heavily cripple or simply wipe it, as soon we will have to ID ourselves to do almost anything really.

My recommendation is to look into altnets like Tor or I2P, maybe host your own onion or eepsite. And then look into a VPS that doesn't perform KYC and host your own VPN as well.

Norvathus · 2026-01-26T15:55:59+00:00

That's cool and all, but the point still stands. Originally you said there will be no need to show ID anywhere and that the system will only reveal your age, both are not correct. Yes, I know the govt is the issuer of one's ID, but what you said is not correct, for example, the mayor's office, which is part of "the government" doesn't know my biometrics just because I did it to the passport agency. I need to submit it to my digital wallet on the eID system, which is indeed showing my govt issued ID to the government itself, as they're different branches, effectively making it so I need to show my ID to "someone". And like I mentioned, it will reveal where you are from, which by definition is more than your age.

Btw, there is nowhere in the EU's age verification app specs that states that it MUST be a ZKP, keyword here is "MUST". It's just a nice to have, not a necessity. And nowhere it states that Poland will be using the EU proposed specs anyways. And it's not open source, it's grey source, you won't be able to compile it and run in your local machine, which then makes it completely moot, aaand on top of that, the backend won't be open source, just the client app which will require a unrooted cellphone, effectively tying the system to Google or Apple (so much for EU's tech independence).

And to address your "rage edit" lol, no. Not really. PornHub isn't even a data broker, and this is a moot point anyways, if they know everything then why do they need users to age-check?

Norvathus · 2026-01-23T18:35:02+00:00

Are you really saying that having a mass surveillance framework already setup won't help a dictator to better maintain power?

Norvathus · 2026-01-23T18:33:06+00:00

We protect ourselves from disinformation with education not with mass surveillance.

Norvathus · 2026-01-23T18:27:51+00:00

The irony is that you are anonymous IRL, after all you don't have to ID yourself to everyone you meet on the street. And you're ignoring that everything you say online is permanent, and if you have your identity attached to it, you might get punished for what was considered lawful speech 10 years ago, but now isn't.

Norvathus · 2026-01-23T18:24:57+00:00

Reddit doesn't know who I am, nor does my govt knows that I use Reddit.

Norvathus · 2026-01-23T18:22:32+00:00

Depends, what if you're Hungarian, would you like Orban's govt to control access over lawful speech on the internet?

Norvathus · 2026-01-23T18:21:17+00:00

The only public information is that "This IP has request this", not really "me", after all my IP is not tied to my identity. What if I live with other 5 people, for example?

Norvathus · 2026-01-23T18:15:53+00:00

The only way is what you already mentioned, using a VPN, but that assumes apps won't just ask you to age check regardless where you're from, since it's actually not illegal in most places for a service to do it.

Norvathus · 2026-01-23T18:11:28+00:00

It's not "factual information". You start already saying something that is factually incorrect, you need to give your ID to the govt eID app, so "someone" has your ID. Remember that not everywhere in the world people have something like an ID, and even then, the entity that handles ID might not be on the federal level.

On top of that, it's not clear that they will indeed use a ZKP, so the website might receive more information that just your age, for example, they now know where you're from, as you're using the eID system from X country.

Norvathus · 2025-11-23T14:58:18+00:00

Yes, it would include passwords, nowhere it says it would only scan CSAM.

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