Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”

[retiolus@mamot.fr]

@SecurityWriter The other day, Amazon—where I’ve had an account for many years and have always used the same identity—asked me to provide a photo of my ID and a facial scan under the pretext of combating fraud. I filed a complaint with the @cnil .

[jtb@toot.wales]

@SecurityWriter You have to be 18 to have a Paypal account too, although I don't remember proving it.

[maia@shrimp.magmaus3.eu.org]

@SecurityWriter meanwhile this one has had a card long before turning 18

[gnoll110@ruby.social]

@SecurityWriter

What happens if you don't cough up?

You lose access to certain games, or the whole account?

[My credit cards where created in the 90s]

[zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org]

@SecurityWriter Ok, but then you'll have to pass multi captcha to prove you are human.

[sodiboo@gaysex.cloud]

@maia@shrimp.magmaus3.eu.org aren't you, like, not British?

Steam requiring a credit card is only in the UK. where people under 18 cannot get a credit card by law. they can have a debit card, but Steam demands specifically a credit card for age verification.

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@SecurityWriter

I think Newgrounds has a "if your account is more than 10 years old then you are clearly over 18" somewhere in their age verification or at least they did when they first started doing it.

[maia@shrimp.magmaus3.eu.org]

@sodiboo ah
(this one is not british; also didn't know that, sorry)

[billysmith@social.coop]

@yetzt @SecurityWriter

[chrisoliver@indieweb.social]

Oh, good old product silos, still keeping things consistent. /s

[violent_grimes@kolektiva.social]

@masek @SecurityWriter

Recently started using aliases, and the shit some of these platforms come up with when they want you to use something they can use to mine your data is wild. "Oh, something went wrong. Please try again." Three "tries again" and suddenly their "hinting" gets more blunt, "Maaaaybe you should try a different email address." Lol, nope don't actually need SoundCloud thanks.

[violent_grimes@kolektiva.social]

@martin @masek @SecurityWriter

One of my email aliases is literally just a domain I own, and it gets rejected regularly. What, we aren't allowed to have custom domains now? They going to start enforcing that on companies as well? "Sorry, your techdept(@)google(dot)com email is suspicious, maybe try gmail?" Lol

[sit@mastodon.social]

@SecurityWriter Apple solved this problem by accepting your logic:

[rberthier@oc.todon.fr]

@SIT @SecurityWriter They may have change stance (dunno where the screenshot is from), but it was not their original idea: https://andregarzia.com/2026/03/apple-just-lost-me.html

[sit@mastodon.social]

@rberthier @SecurityWriter Interesting, I saw this on Reddit a few days ago from a UK user and cut the screenshot before saving it.

I also noticed a user explain how (hard it was) to get the driver's license accepted to a user who hadn't managed it, so it might not function as reliably as it should.

[inari@squeaky.social]

@SecurityWriter anyone with a debit card in the US or Canada has a “credit card” for all intents and purposes! LOL

[sit@mastodon.social]

@rberthier @SecurityWriter This was from the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1s3cwxz/

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@SecurityWriter 23 years is impressive, I'm holding at the 21 years mark.

Which they give you fucking BADGE for that's the FIRST THING on your profile.

[gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@yetzt @SecurityWriter

[draeath@infosec.exchange]

@luc0x61 @SecurityWriter mine goes back to when steam was a replacement for O.G. HL's multiplayer service, WoN. My account name is an email address itself