Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4
I think the whole reason is not “verify you are an adult”. It’s for anti-bot. Bots are too good nowadays. It’s indistinguishable at scale. And bots are bad for advertisers.
That’s one hot take… Advertisers don’t care if the streamer is a bot, they care if the viewer is a bot. Mega-corpo’s ideal solution is 100% bot streamers and 100% real people viewers.
This isn’t age verification, or anti-bot. This is straight up fulfilling surveillance contracts with the US government. They don’t even need to justify it, they are holding money hostage instead.
Yeah, but this is affiliates we’re talking about. There’s already plenty of process for proving that affiliatesnare humans, not the least of which is the fact that they STREAM themselves.
I think the whole reason is not “verify you are an adult”. It’s for anti-bot. Bots are too good nowadays. It’s indistinguishable at scale. And bots are bad for advertisers.
That’s one hot take… Advertisers don’t care if the streamer is a bot, they care if the viewer is a bot. Mega-corpo’s ideal solution is 100% bot streamers and 100% real people viewers.
This isn’t age verification, or anti-bot. This is straight up fulfilling surveillance contracts with the US government. They don’t even need to justify it, they are holding money hostage instead.
Yeah, but this is affiliates we’re talking about. There’s already plenty of process for proving that affiliatesnare humans, not the least of which is the fact that they STREAM themselves.