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by sdfhdhjdw3 1431 days ago
They were offering shitcoins in exchange to people scanning their eyeballs. That's a double-whammy of dodgy behavior.

No, I don't need to provide details. If you don't see it, you're a lost cause.

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Are you aware that the eyeball scans are only used in a zero-knowledge proof? So they collect no biometric data actually?
Not everything is a question of "does it collect data", actually.

They're collecting _some_ value from individuals, whether you understand it or not.

Your comment reminds me of Facebook's disingenuous "we we're not _selling_ the data", which just a way of distracting from the real issue. This isn't about data, it's about yet another incremental stripping down of individual's control over their intrinsics.

You seem to agree that they don't collect biometric data, so I'm not sure exactly what "intrinsics" is being "stripped down" from individuals, in this case. Could you clarify?
I don't agree to anything, because I don't know enough about it. They SAY they don't collect data, they SAY it's a zero knowledge proof. Who knows about that.

What I know is that they're extracting some value from people who (like me) likely don't understand the implications. This isn't complicated.

Because you so confidently asserted that they were "all scumbags" who have no "credibility", I'd expected much more certain evidence about the nefariousness of Worldcoin.

I, like you, believe it is very important to remind folks that they should clearly understand the value prop of an exchange before they participate in it.

But I don't think that calling "scumbags" the folks behind any proposed value exchange (like Worldcoin) that you yourself (self-admittedly) don't fully understand the implications of, is a way to achieve that.

There's no value prop in getting your eyeball scanned in exchange for magic beans.
This disingenuous method of distracting from the real issues is so commonplace in everything web3 (and corporate)

Edit: Good job with your arguments for the rest of the thread too.