Logged in today to an ID verification prompt—and I don't even live in a state that requires it.
Privacy is dead unless you self-host.
Fortunately, I run a half-cabinet and self-host my entire digital life; this was just a throwaway YouTube account.
I will go full cactus—completely self-sustaining and prickly as hell—before I ever upload a government ID or hand a facial scan to a private corporation. Fuck that. And fuck the "small government" hypocrites and corporate tech bros who built this surveillance skynet.