Good news: Discord's new age verification means more than 90% of users won't be asked to confirm their age at all. Instead, it's going to... profile you? It just needs to know who your friends are, which communities you're part of, what games you play, how often you're online, and the full shape of your social graph. They're calling it "privacy-preserving." Because technically they're not reading your messages. In September 2025, a vendor Discord used for age-related appeals was compromised, potentially exposing government ID photos from around 70,000 users. That manual review process has been retired. For most users, the behavioural model now estimates their age group instead. "Privacy-preserving." Cool. 🙂