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Watching Age-Restricted Videos
- raxxorrax 5y agoBasically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. For privacy reasons I don't use one to watch videos and I am certainly not providing an ID. So for European users non-compliant video platforms are preferable for any controversial content (Any platform will err on the side of caution when flagging content, as are users). This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to content, probably on sites that are "worse" than Youtube. For Europeans everything on Youtube is now Youtube Kids.
- addingnumbers 5y ago> Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. When I see the age gate asking me to log in, I close the tab. How will the EU stop me from doing that?
- hermes8329 5y agoBecause you are required to watch the free content
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- addingnumbers 5y agoI just tested it, the close button works perfectly. I'm not required to do anything.
- veidr 5y agoIs creating a google account more arduous than before? I've created dozens of them (including for my kids, where I had to be less than truthful about their age), and I have never had to provide an — OMFG I HAD NOT EXPANDED THE "If you're in the EU..." LINK! :exploding_outraged_and_bewildered_head: OK, you are right, this is governance done wrong.
- nobody9999 5y ago>Is creating a google account more arduous than before? Not sure about in the EU, but here in the US I cannot create a google account without providing a telephone number "for security." That's certainly different (not more arduous, but more privacy invading) from when I created other Google accounts some years back.
- agolliver 5y agoI just created a new Google account in the US without providing any personal details whatsoever.
- nobody9999 5y agoThat hasn't been my experience of late. In fact, I just tried again and was asked to "verify my phone number." Perhaps you created such an account with your phone? In which case, Google already has that information.
- raxxorrax 5y agoI also like to not create an account because I enjoy non-profiled search. I dislike getting served the same mush over and over. But that is just a preference. But yeah, the real problem is that we got age filter no. 4523. There are alternative ways, but this should work for anyone currently affected: https://githubmemory.com/repo/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass https://githubmemory.com/repo/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age... I think this implementation of the EU AVMSD forces users private data to be more likely to be exposed.
- monkeybutton 5y agoA 12 year old is going to sneak a picture of their parent's credit card or ID when they are busy and not paying attention. Or an older sibling's ID. Or share a photo of a valid ID among their friends.
- schleck8 5y agoYoutube does not age restrict many videos, it's seriously hard finding one that's neither gore nor porn and still age restricted.
- dkersten 5y agoThe only videos that have been asking me to prove that I’m over 18 are comedy ones that have typically been on YouTube for years.
- nobody9999 5y ago>Youtube does not age restrict many videos, it's seriously hard finding one that's neither gore nor porn and still age restricted. I was going to post a link to a song based on the "All your base are belong to us" meme on another site, but it was, for some unknown reason, age-restricted.
- DoItToMe81 5y agoRandom videos about unionization and US foreign policy have found themselves age restricted. I won't dig them all up, but here's one which was made age restricted without appeal. Does it seem like 18+ content to you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lzlUucGTco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lzlUucGTco
- johnlorentzson 5y agoIt's wonderful when I have to show my ID before I can watch a video of the funny man saying fuck (I'm not kidding, that's sometimes but usually not enough to get it automatically age-restricted).