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YouTube will start to demand ID / credit cards information from European users

42 points by Elons_baby 6y ago

Woodi 6y ago
if required then BYE!
- Elons_baby 6y ago
  true story
- eesmith 6y ago
  And you'll go where to watch the age restricted videos you now watch on YouTube?
  - emsy 6y ago
    Don't watch them at all.
    - eesmith 6y ago
      I don't already, because I don't log in to what YouTube videos. But the article said that more videos were likely to be limited to age-verified accounts, and that identification would be done by machine, which tells me that more and more videos are going to require being logged in first. I've already seen over the last couple of months that YouTube insists on prompting me to log in, so I figure there's a larger movement at Google to tie viewers to actual people/accounts - almost certainly to improve advertising revenue. So at some point there will likely be something I want to watch which is "age restricted" or "for premiere accounts" or something like that, which once upon a time would have been available to anyone.
  - capableweb 6y ago
    nsfwyoutube works around that restriction. Personally, if YouTube asks me for ID, I'll leave the platform too, pulling down all favorites videos before and rehosting them somewhere else instead.
    - eesmith 6y ago
      I hadn't heard of nsfwyoutube. Thanks!
    - SQueeeeeL 6y ago
      I feel like they'll just close the loophole that allows nsfwyoutube to work, then we'll actually have to confront the situation instead of having a work around.
  - hggh 6y ago
    mpv bypasses age restriction (via youtube-dl)
    - justinclift 6y ago
      > via youtube-dl ... for now. :(
  - retox 6y ago
    Replace 'you' with 'hook' in the url.
- eznzt 6y ago
  It's not youtube's fault, it's the EU's. I was going to say "remember this the next time you vote", but it's not like us EU citizens are really given a choice.
haunter 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jm37a1/youtube_will_start_to_demand_id_credit_cards/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jm37a1/youtube_wil...
LinuxBender 6y ago
Will this be imposed upon other regions as well?
- disown 6y ago
  Only if other regions/nations require it. Youtube is doing this to comply with EU directive as stated in the article.
Yliaho 6y ago
So YouTube does this to comply with EUs new directive? Isn’t this beyond Google then, and we’re starting to see similar methods for user verification on other video-on-demand platforms? What’s up with these horribly out-of-touch privacy/license EU directives...
senkora 6y ago
> For content owners who feel their videos were erroneously restricted, YouTube will let them appeal the decision. I’m sure that this process will have no problems whatsoever.
Doxin 6y ago
So this seems to be in response to article 27 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive[1] Of note is that the law does not mention ID cards or credit cards. That just happens to be the route youtube chose to go. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32010L0013&from=EN#d1e2134-1-1 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

42 points by Elons_baby 6y ago

Woodi 6y ago

if required then BYE!

Elons_baby 6y ago
true story
eesmith 6y ago
And you'll go where to watch the age restricted videos you now watch on YouTube?
- emsy 6y ago
  Don't watch them at all.
  - eesmith 6y ago
    I don't already, because I don't log in to what YouTube videos. But the article said that more videos were likely to be limited to age-verified accounts, and that identification would be done by machine, which tells me that more and more videos are going to require being logged in first. I've already seen over the last couple of months that YouTube insists on prompting me to log in, so I figure there's a larger movement at Google to tie viewers to actual people/accounts - almost certainly to improve advertising revenue. So at some point there will likely be something I want to watch which is "age restricted" or "for premiere accounts" or something like that, which once upon a time would have been available to anyone.
- capableweb 6y ago
  nsfwyoutube works around that restriction. Personally, if YouTube asks me for ID, I'll leave the platform too, pulling down all favorites videos before and rehosting them somewhere else instead.
  - eesmith 6y ago
    I hadn't heard of nsfwyoutube. Thanks!
  - SQueeeeeL 6y ago
    I feel like they'll just close the loophole that allows nsfwyoutube to work, then we'll actually have to confront the situation instead of having a work around.
- hggh 6y ago
  mpv bypasses age restriction (via youtube-dl)
  - justinclift 6y ago
    > via youtube-dl ... for now. :(
- retox 6y ago
  Replace 'you' with 'hook' in the url.
eznzt 6y ago
It's not youtube's fault, it's the EU's. I was going to say "remember this the next time you vote", but it's not like us EU citizens are really given a choice.

haunter 6y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jm37a1/youtube_will_start_to_demand_id_credit_cards/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jm37a1/youtube_wil...

LinuxBender 6y ago

Will this be imposed upon other regions as well?

disown 6y ago
Only if other regions/nations require it. Youtube is doing this to comply with EU directive as stated in the article.

Yliaho 6y ago

So YouTube does this to comply with EUs new directive? Isn’t this beyond Google then, and we’re starting to see similar methods for user verification on other video-on-demand platforms? What’s up with these horribly out-of-touch privacy/license EU directives...

senkora 6y ago

> For content owners who feel their videos were erroneously restricted, YouTube will let them appeal the decision. I’m sure that this process will have no problems whatsoever.

Doxin 6y ago

So this seems to be in response to article 27 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive[1] Of note is that the law does not mention ID cards or credit cards. That just happens to be the route youtube chose to go. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32010L0013&from=EN#d1e2134-1-1 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...