We live in the UK. She didn’t go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the “old.Reddit” trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end

  • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    it’s not an image, they ask for live camera feed where you turn your head to the side to make sure you exist in 3d and stuff

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      lol wtf!

      I went to use Marketplace last year which meant signing into my old FB account for the first time since like 2013, even though I barely used it before that. Turns out it had been hacked at some point in the last decade and I had to upload a bunch of pics and ID stuff to get it back with a 48 hr review time or something…

      Ooooooor… Just made a new account.

      There was less important dt on that account then there was me giving Meta my latest update on where I am in life now.

      Edit: Actually, just remembered, that old account a friend got my phone and changed all my details. I still get happy birthday messages in April because family get alerted, know I don’t have FB, and send an SMS. No, I was not born in April. I assume I’m still in a “It’s complicated” relationship as well.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Probably not, as it asks you to get closer and farther, but with how AI is, it’s only a matter of time until someone can get around that. The ID though I’m not so sure about

        • ronl2k@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          How would they handle sending them a faked driver’s license? I doubt they have access to the national database needed to verify anything on the pic of the license.

      • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        At least at one point that worked because there was a new article about the sudden surge of popularity from a YouTube video from like 2011 of a middle aged woman looking left then right whichb had successfully fooled the system. Guessing they fixed it since.