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They might use your Google Pay to see if you have a credit card attached and use that to confirm you are over 18. This is one of the age verification methods YT

They might use your Google Pay to see if you have a credit card attached and use that to confirm you are over 18. This is one of the age verification methods YT does.

prepend 4y ago
They could if they cared about actually verifying age. But they don’t. In fact, I would guess that Google can predict your age with good accuracy without you logging in. I’ve had kids under 13 create Google accounts that said they were 75 or whatever. Google doesn’t care. They just want you logged in and selling “targeted” ads. I expect there will eventually be some sort of smoking class action suit that gets damages from emails knowing that accounts are 5 years old and not stopping it because of revenue. Of course I’ve been waiting a long time.
- AshamedCaptain 4y ago
  > In fact, I would guess that Google can predict your age with good accuracy without you logging in. My Google account is almost 20 years old at this point, and they still ask me for credit card verification every time I want to see an "age-restricted" video in YT (and "age-restricted" topics apparently includes Verilog programming). Google can't predict anything.
  - hulitu 4y ago
    They know your age. They just want your creditcard and a confirmation that it exactly you ( else they need to trigger the profiling algorithm for a new person).
- knaik94 4y ago
  You may not have come across this yourself, but Google requries verified ID to watch age-restricted videos on Youtube in EU, EAA, Switzerland or UK. It just hasn't hit US in the same way. Louisiana set a dangerous precedent though, legally. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#zippy=%2Cif-youre-in-the-eu-eea-switzerland-or-the-united-kingdom https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#... https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10071085?visit_id=638115215574187528-1625336678&p=age-verify&rd=1 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10071085?visit_id...

They might use your Google Pay to see if you have a credit card attached and use that to confirm you are over 18. This is one of the age verification methods YT does.

prepend 4y ago

They could if they cared about actually verifying age. But they don’t. In fact, I would guess that Google can predict your age with good accuracy without you logging in. I’ve had kids under 13 create Google accounts that said they were 75 or whatever. Google doesn’t care. They just want you logged in and selling “targeted” ads. I expect there will eventually be some sort of smoking class action suit that gets damages from emails knowing that accounts are 5 years old and not stopping it because of revenue. Of course I’ve been waiting a long time.

AshamedCaptain 4y ago
> In fact, I would guess that Google can predict your age with good accuracy without you logging in. My Google account is almost 20 years old at this point, and they still ask me for credit card verification every time I want to see an "age-restricted" video in YT (and "age-restricted" topics apparently includes Verilog programming). Google can't predict anything.
- hulitu 4y ago
  They know your age. They just want your creditcard and a confirmation that it exactly you ( else they need to trigger the profiling algorithm for a new person).
knaik94 4y ago
You may not have come across this yourself, but Google requries verified ID to watch age-restricted videos on Youtube in EU, EAA, Switzerland or UK. It just hasn't hit US in the same way. Louisiana set a dangerous precedent though, legally. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#zippy=%2Cif-youre-in-the-eu-eea-switzerland-or-the-united-kingdom https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#... https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10071085?visit_id=638115215574187528-1625336678&p=age-verify&rd=1 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10071085?visit_id...