Chat apps use Identity to verify bots and prevent bad bots from spamming real users. And shipping services use Identity when a user is suspected as a fraudster—to double check before creating fraudulent shipping labels.
Is bot spam rampant on discord or something? Are less invasive forms of verification (eg. SMS, credit card, or requiring a deposit) not enough? Can it not be solved via technical means? eg. requiring users to opt-in before receiving messages from a bot?
> And shipping services use Identity when a user is suspected as a fraudster—to double check before creating fraudulent shipping labels.
Yet I can buy hundreds of dollars of goods off amazon (or any other e-commerce site) without uploading my ID and giving them a live video feed of my face.
For both of these use cases, I don't doubt that ID verification provides benefit, I just find the privacy tradeoff to be unacceptable. As an analogy, a store can probably cut down on shoplifting if they performed ID checks at the entrance and kept a visitors log, but I think most people would find that unnecessarily intrusive and would refuse to patronize that store.
It definitely is. If you don't turn off DMs from all the public servers you're in you'll inevitably be hit with the crypto spam bots.
There's also the issue of bots silently sitting on servers and logging all chats, user statuses, etc.
> bots silently sitting on servers and logging all chats
Anyone who thinks this isn't happening in every public communication channel is hopelessly naive.
The ones that aren't marked as bots and wouldn't have their identify verified anyway?
This doesn't seem like it works.