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Player 2 Privacy & Safety: Accounts, Blocking and Reports
How Player 2 handles safety and privacy: who can sign up, what a verified account means, how blocking and reporting work, and the privacy controls you have.
By Ahnaf An Nafee · Published 2026-07-10 · Updated 2026-09-23
TLDR
Player 2 is for players aged 13 and older, and everyone enters a date of birth at sign-up. You confirm your email before you can post, send friend requests or matchmake. Most of the safety work is in your hands. A block works in both directions, and a report goes to the Player 2 moderation team and stops the app recommending that player to you. Player 2 doesn't check phone numbers or IDs, so treat a new account as a stranger until you've played together.
Signing up
You create an account with your name, a username, an email address, a password and your date of birth, or you sign in with Google or Apple. Sign-up turns away anyone whose date of birth makes them younger than 13.
Browsing works straight away. The actions that reach other people (posting, sending friend requests, LFG and matchmaking) wait until you've confirmed your email address. Google and Apple sign-ins usually arrive with the email already confirmed.
After sign-up you can link platform accounts to sync your game library. Steam links from the web, and Xbox, PlayStation and Discord link in the mobile app. Linking shows what you play. It isn't an identity check.
Blocking and reporting
These two tools do most of the safety work, and both belong to you:
- Block anyone who ruins your night. A block works in both directions: neither of you shows up in the other's matches or likes, and Player 2 stops recommending you to each other.
- Report a player or a post that breaks the rules, like harassment or hate speech. The report goes to the Player 2 moderation team, and the app stops recommending that player or post to you.
Player 2 can't ban anyone from Valorant or League. Game bans are each publisher's call, and the two systems are independent. What Player 2 can do is keep a player you've blocked or reported out of your pool, whatever happens in the game itself.
Players under 18
The minimum age is 13, and there's no separate matchmaking pool for teens. If you're under 18, keep conversations inside the app, don't share personal details such as your address, school or phone number, and block and report anyone who makes you uncomfortable.
The CSAE Policy sets out Player 2's zero-tolerance approach to child sexual abuse and exploitation. Violating content is removed, and incidents are reported to law enforcement and to NCMEC.
What data Player 2 collects
The privacy policy is authoritative. In short, it covers what you give at sign-up (name, username, email and date of birth), your profile and the games you link, and how you use the app. The app and this website also use advertising and analytics services, which the policy names. Those services can receive device and advertising identifiers, your IP address and a general location inferred from it.
Player 2 doesn't run inside your games, so it never hears your in-game voice chat or reads your in-game text.
Your privacy controls
The privacy controls page lets you switch off:
- Personalized ads. You still see ads, just generic ones.
- Personalized recommendations. You get generic picks, and recommendation learning stops.
- Crash and error reporting. These are anonymized diagnostics that help fix bugs.
- Partner data sharing. This is approved activity data shared with trusted partners.
Recommendation and partner-sharing choices are tied to your account, so sign in to change them.
What "verified" doesn't mean
A confirmed email is a low bar, so be clear about what it doesn't tell you:
- Verified ≠ vouched for. A confirmed account can still belong to a first-time toxic player. That's what blocking is for.
- Verified ≠ identity-checked. Player 2 doesn't check your real name, photo, phone number or government ID. A new email address is enough to make a new account.
- Verified ≠ banned-from-Riot-can't-use-Player-2. A player banned in Valorant can still have a Player 2 account, because the two systems are independent.
How this interacts with anti-toxicity filters
How to Find Non-Toxic Gaming Friends covers the user-side filters (rage tolerance, comm preference). This article covers the platform side, and the two stack. Blocks and reports take specific people out of your pool. Your playstyle then narrows what's left to players who fit how you like to play.
A player can have a spotless record and still not be your match. If they're chill and you want try-hard, the pairing rarely lasts.