Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

How do they know the selfie genuinely belongs the person uploading the image?

I'd be going through Instagram and Facebook looking for people's images to upload on my behalf. Then again, I do not partake in NSFW subreddits because that's the last data point I would want that godforsaken site to know about me.

I tried using faces on print material and on screen — the verification rejected both. I think the only thing you could do would be to go up to a stranger and use their face, but that behaviour is even more scummy than the behaviour that got us here!

Maybe in theory, but not in practice, at least for me.

I’m sitting in my parents house in the UK and have cough just tested this. No access restrictions…

How does a selfie prove you’re over 18?

Because we now defer to AI on everything remotely important.

this could end up being a butt-selfie harvesting exercise