From the same directors of OpenAI closing their models, Privacy.com now requires ID checks.

FUCK

Anyone have recommended alternatives?

I hope I'm grandfathered

IDK if it was Persona, but when I tried to sign up last year, they demanded I send a copy o fmy photo ID to a 3rd party identity broker. I refused, and did not sign up. Given the recent huge breaches of photo ID databases, I feel kinda vindicated about that.

People have been discussing it for months. I haven't noticed it until now. Apparently you haven't either... So I think you won't be affected until you do something major.

I logged in last night and didn't see anything about verification. Still, I'm going to start looking for alternatives.

FUCK indeed. Now I guess I need to find an alternative. Fuck all this id verification bullshit.

My CC is EOL it's extension to access/create virtual CC's and I use that multiple times a week so I've been looking around and knew about privacy.com

And that's quite the timing regarding them. I can still create and use virtual cards but it's going to be a lot bigger pita which is why I was looking around.

Hope someone knows a good alternative!

same, I wasn't personally affected... Yet

But I'm also not creating any more cards with them and I'm jumping ship if I see decent alternative.

The sheet did kyc for me. I wonder if that will prevent them asking for an id

I say close your account before they make you hand your Id over.

Get a second ID for all this nonsense, and sleep easy at night.

A second ID from where may I ask?

Don't promote Rossmann :/

https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/#rossmann

Have you even read the website you're linking?

I went through it, and there's nothing of note there. It basically boils down to somebody calling a bunch of people weirdos, with some arbitrary claims, and links to irrelevant, even contradictory information.

On August 3rd, 2026, Louis posted a video about openly transgender Colorado state representative Brianna Titone, and in the YouTube comments posted a remark explaining his position on transgender issues, which can be paraphrased as “I think transgender women are men but I’m willing to overlook it if we have common cause”.

The 'source' provided here only links to the video. Good luck reading all the 423 comments, and figuring out which one is him saying anything close to that paraphrased statement.

They're also calling Louis a weirdo for being an associate of Eron Wolf. And if you go to Eron Wolf's entry, he's a weirdo, because... he's an associate of Louis Rossmann. Yeah, that's makes perfect sense.

Eron is the modestly wealthy founder of FUTO, an organization that funds software projects. He doesn’t like the Open Source Definition (...)

This is one of the few technically accurate claims on the page, but it's manipulative. The relevant part of FULU's statement is:

Our use of the term “open source” thus far has been not out of carelessness, but out of disdain for OSI approved licenses which nevertheless allow developers to be exploited by large corporate interests. The OSI, an organization with confidential charter members and large corporate sponsors, does not have any legal right to say what is and is not “open source”. It is arrogant of them to lay claim to the definition.

I think it's perfectly reasonable.

I'm guessing the website author is hoping you won't actually click any of the links, because none of them support their claims or the points they're trying to make.

I'd say this just looks like a billionaire-funded smear campaign.

Oh, yeah I did my initial response and later I tried going through the source and I could not find it at all.

Thank you for putting it onto such consise words.

Also:https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/

I mean... If you actively use kiwifarms aren't you automatically a bad person?

Signal Mr_Blue.72
100% genuine and reliable.

I believe Revolut works still.

Yeah. Surrender your internet plan and touch grass.

It's that comment:

New thing called AI. People's names and adresses are public record in many places if they own their home. Have at it.

He's got his own opinion and points out that it's his opinion and irrelevant to the work of said politician and that it's not his place to force his opinion on anyone

Honestly doesn't seem like a huge deal to me. Who cares what he thinks as long as he respect other people's right to their own opinion and doesn't try to police anyone's gender

Lol that thumbnail summs up pretty well what I was thinking when I read the headline

Now I am going to promote him even more.

It’s not a bad plan at all and I touch more grass with every new thing that enshittifies.

One thing I found is revolut is different than what I want I don't want a new bank or bank like app just virtual ccs. And if course you have this from yesterday

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/25/another-week-another-data-breach-for-revolut-customers/5299092

I liked him back in the macbook repair days, the futo stuff always gave me weird vibes, but the right for repair stuff was still good to see.

Shame to see he's that type of asshole though, not really sure what to do with my Mr.Clinton right-to-repair shirt now.

Yeah that link of "information" is pretty thin for most people. There's some real things in there, but most of it reads as fanfic

Another insane Lemmy user to the blocklist it is.

Link to article?

I started to sign up a couple years ago, maybe, and they wanted a massive amount of personal info. It never made sense to me. If I was willing to give all that out to some random company online, I wouldn't need a privacy service.

🙉 🙈

using stolen/leaked ids as your own is a felony on many (most? all?) places. don't know what ai has to do with it.

but just fyi so you don't get arrested or anything.

I suppose they are going to require some KYC info. They have legal reqs they have to meet. So, I get that they must know my real identity. Still, they could do it without a photo ID given to a 3rd party identiy broker. There are other ways, which do not depend on an ID copy which every identity thief in the world wants.

Well, it mostly relates to the person's blog. I linked it before. Futo really likes right-wing projects and sponsors some of them. It's also sponsored by right wing orgs.

I thought that was just a harassment group, not a webapp. Wow.

The horror.

Monero

I'm using privacy.com haven't been asked any ID yet but then again bank account is attached to it so I assume it verifies through bank. What am I missing, what should I change? Or maybe how should I understand this change?

It's still transphobic. Less reactionary, sure, but transphobic.

People are allowed to have their opinions. Long as they're not hurting anyone or actively sowing discord, it's not a huge deal.

Thanks for sharing.

Why are they subject to KYC requirements? Are they a finance company?

Good question, maybe I spoke too quick. I think they might be since they extend credit and deal with connections to the banking system. But I'm NAL. At least they are going to require a real world identity when giving out credit card numbers, which is also true of traditional card companies.

Mostly I'm OK with them knowing my IRL identity, and proving that to them. But I'm not OK with sending a digital photo of my DL to some 3rd party identity broker who tends to leak those a lot.

Yeah. It may finally be time to completely close my gmail/google account.