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I have a Google account for like 14 years or so, although I no longer use it for anything other than YouTube. Yesterday I tried to watch some age restricted vid
by ttt0 6y ago
I have a Google account for like 14 years or so, although I no longer use it for anything other than YouTube. Yesterday I tried to watch some age restricted video on YouTube and they've suddenly asked me to confirm my age by either giving them my credit card details or a scan of my ID.
Nothing that mpv with youtube-dl couldn't solve, but still.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago> asked me to confirm my age by either giving them my credit card details or a scan of my ID. These people have no shame. Frankly, I wonder how far they will go.
- noisem4ker 6y agoYou mean politicians? Governments play a role in mandating age verification. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779#zippy=%2Cif-youre-in-the-european-union-eu-european-economic-area-eea-switzerland-or-united-kingdom https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779#zippy=%2C...
- ttt0 6y agoSo on one hand you have GDPR to protect your privacy and on the other they made it so you have to give up your entire identity to them anyways. Brilliant. But let's also not forget that Google is (was?) parsing your banking info from your emails with transactions and purchases, and there wasn't even any option to turn it off.
- noisem4ker 6y agoI think the information they get from your ID isn't supposed to be used other than to set an "age verified" bit on your profile.