> "By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do."
People have already validated this fyi. When k-ID was first added you could send a bogus age result to discord from your local device, which probably still works. There's no evidence your facial scans leave the device.
> "By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification."
Which isn't true, it was a UK-only experiment being run for a small subset of users, which has now been discontinued.
I get people are outraged, but this is sensationalism at best.
3.5 is approaching end of life in the next few years, you definitely should not building anything new with it. There's a lot of QoL changes in modern .NET that makes your life as a developer significantly nicer. Even for building windows services, the modern Generic Host model is orders of magnitude better than anything in .NET Framework.
> Why is there so much difference in the NuGet downloads between both libraries tho?
Because there's a boatload of older .NET apps that have been using Newtonsoft for over a decade already and aren't in a rush to switch. Anything built on .NET Framework is likely to still use Newtonsoft.
> however the 4.x stuff is definitely out of support [...] Sorry, I did not know they had actually brought non-Core ASP.NET forward into 5.0+
None of this is true, you've gotten yourself very confused. The only real change with .NET 5 was the "Core" name being dropped and the Mono runtime being merged in. .NET Framework 4.x is still around and is still fully supported for legacy applications.
> Discord then fail to honour their end of the deal by deleting their users documents after use, and then get breached.
This wasn't documents uploaded via the automated ID checker, it was users manually sending ID documents to support in order to appeal an automated age decision.
People have already validated this fyi. When k-ID was first added you could send a bogus age result to discord from your local device, which probably still works. There's no evidence your facial scans leave the device.
> "By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification."
Which isn't true, it was a UK-only experiment being run for a small subset of users, which has now been discontinued.
I get people are outraged, but this is sensationalism at best.