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  "path": "/t/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/35742#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T21:35:03.000Z",
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    "9to5Mac – 24 Feb 26",
    "Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac",
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  "textContent": "9to5Mac – 24 Feb 26\n\n### Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac\n\nDiscord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...\n\nEst. reading time: 2 minutes\n\n> …] today [in a new blog post, co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy went much further.\n>\n> Per the post, age verification will no longer be required in March. Instead, it’s being pushed to the second half of 2026.\n>\n> More significant than the delay, though, is several key details changing that should make the eventual rollout far less controversial.\n>\n>>   1. **Adding more verification options.** We already had alternatives in development, including credit card verification. We’ll complete and expand those before scaling globally so you have more options you’re comfortable with.\n>>   2. **Vendor transparency.** We’ll document every verification vendor and their practices on our website, and make it clear in the product who each vendor is. We’ve also set a new requirement: any partner offering facial age estimation must perform it entirely on-device. If they don’t meet that bar, we won’t work with them.\n>>   3. **A new spoiler channel option.** We know many communities use age-restricted channels not for adult content, but for topics people prefer to engage with on their own terms: spoilers, politics, and heavier conversations. We’re building a dedicated spoiler channel option so communities don’t have to age-gate their server just to give members that choice.\n>>   4. **A technical blog post before global launch.** We’ll publish a detailed post explaining how our automatic age determination systems work, including the signal categories and privacy constraints. So you can evaluate our approach for yourselves.\n>>   5. **Age assurance data in our transparency reports.** We’ll include how many users were asked to verify, what methods they used, and how often our automated systems handled it without any user action.\n>>\n",
  "title": "Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now"
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