Seems like the whole world is going crazy, in some way or form. Yesterday I had to validate a prepaid card and ended up getting interrogated via webcam. Had to hold my ID right up into the camera and wiggle it around according to command. Which is about as fair as it's annoying, in context of signing up a phone, but then I'm not going to do that song and dance for a glorified subreddit. No offense, but I'm not your little monkey. Steemit already got my number and my email address and if you can't tell I'm a real person, too fucking bad. I'm not going to livestream myself balancing a tea cup on my forehead, while also fiddling around with a timestamp. Good try though.
Strangely enough I'm barely able to tell anymore what's satire and what isn't. But I guess that's just how things go these days.
I had the same "great" webcam interrogation with Coinmerce. Not that it brought me anything and by now they let AI answer my e-mail.
Anyway, that guy asked me for my ID so I said: can I see yours first?
He looked startled and said he didn't have any with him. Instead of his ID he showed the college behind him having lunch...
Because he wasted my time with that stupid webcam thing I decided to keep him busy for a loooong time.
Can't you not just order a prepaid phone card? I still can and it's up to me if I register if so (online) they give 5 or 10 euros. Did you try it with Lebara? It's just that I rarely call so I keep buying credit which I don't need. The "send an SMS" or call rarely works.
What I don't understand is why the webcall and the rest of the old-fashioned shit is needed. We all are a number, vat number, birth, family, bank account you name it is known. Now the taxes want us to use the PIN code of the bank to sign in with them.. . they also want to give sellers the opportunity to check your bank account if you order something.
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Oh, I did order it online. With a balance. Still had to do the webcam verification and wave my ID around (on top of just giving them my address and such). Local laws, I assume. But then many companies are increasingly doing that stuff in terms of.. ah, some anticipatory obedience type of deal? I'm not sure. Hell, they might not even be required to do so technically, or just yet. Like crypto exchanges and banks, with all their bullshit.
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