One clue to me is the "how many times you moved" statement. One actual human "move" is worth hundreds of what the site calls a move. A human would notice that but the reality of it means nothing to an AI.
Secondly just the language used being quite dramatic but also generic.
I don't want to side with Spotify but if it helps I'm pretty sure this would only happen for people on the free tier. Card payments can be used to verify age.
I never understand the press they get. As someone that doesn't want to have a chat with a stranger about everything I buy, self-checkouts are amazing. I don't consider it extra work. OP should look at the history of supermarkets. We didn't use to pick items off the shelves either.
"I don't think I can forgive you for that."
"...but I'd like to try."
Sorry, I do understand that, I was just thinking of an improvement that might help. I thought having the same phone number might work too but that gets dodgier.
I think there must be a way to deliver on the value of the app without it being the privacy/public exposure nightmare it sounds like. Speaking naively, perhaps a setup where you can only speak about a person with those who have actually matched with them.
There is this (slow moving, far off) EU project that hopes to bring a new standard. It doesn't read like they've got a complete solution at all, but the principles are comforting at least!
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
Oh haha sorry!
Sorry, it just read to me like you're presuming a old person that struggles with tech would be a woman. I should've left a more constructive comment.
Fair enough, thanks for calling me out. I'm glad it's not as bad as I thought. The article title threw me off as well.
Makes me really sad when people can't make a cake without a box or can't make a basic roux or something. Really take for granted my privellege to have been exposed to basic stuff like that.