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.

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...