Discord (or social) links in game | PolicyService

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#1

I saw some posts about the topic, where the answer is almost always an abrupt “no, you can’t because there are <13 players”.

However, PolicyService exists. PolicyService:GetPolicyInfoForPlayerAsync returns a dictionary with an AllowedExternalLinkReferences value. According to the API documentation, this value is

A list of external link references (for example, social media links, handles, or iconography) a player is permitted to see. Possible values include: “Discord”, “Facebook”, “Twitch”, “Twitter”, “YouTube”, “X”, “GitHub”, and “Guilded”.

So my question is: doesn’t this mean that it is possible to display social media links in-game, when PolicyService permits it? If not, what is the use of AllowedExternalLinkReferences? Is there another way?

#2

It is possible. Make sure to use PolicyService to check if the player is 13 by the ‘UserCanSeeAds’ or something like that.