all about security

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NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 2y (4 replies)
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Gork@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Yes I was born 1900-01-01 now let me in Steam.

NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
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gerbler@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Did you know that if you're in a room of 50 people, over half of them will share this birthday on steam. Crazy how common it is. Statistics are weird.

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

You made me laugh. Thanks.

stanleytweedle@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y (8 replies)

I miss Leisure Suit Larry's age verification. Didn't work then either but at least you ended up learning some interesting trivia.

zippythezigzag@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Never played it. Can you explain a bit more? You got me curious.

skyler@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Never played it either. Looks like it asked random trivia questions that I guess kids wouldn't know.

http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

"Peter piper picked pickled peppers" seems weird to me as an age verification, but maybe that's because the game is old?

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Was this actually an age gate, or was it a form of copy protection where the answers are in the printed manual?

stanleytweedle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

It was an old 'kings quest' style adventure game featuring 'adult' content, though I don't think it was much past PG-13 really. You had to answer a series of trivia questions to play that were supposed to be things only an adult would probably know. I remember some questions like "What is Havarti: Cheese, A Country, Species of Fish".

Deestan@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y

That verification really did put a hurdle in front of kids back in the pre-internet era.

...and adults outside USA who don't know shit about baseball trivia or comedians famous in West Wisconsin City.

zippythezigzag@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Lol, top tier security there.

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

It was a legitimate challenge if you didn't have an encyclopedia set handy.

ech@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The alternative is ID verification.

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Which some states have been requiring. These states have never heard of VPNs and think that a law will keep porn away fRoM tHe ChiLdReN.

x4740N@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

o te hie

FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I'm still pissed off that PornHub is no longer available in Texas.

toynbee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It's also too bad that VPNs don't work in Texas ... Wink wink nudge nudge.

FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Brave has a Tor browser, but I cannot get any extensions to work for downloading videos.

toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I've never used Tor or Brave, but if you have a URL to a video you like, you should be able to use it to download your preferred video through a command line interface using a VPN.