A few days ago, I clicked an age restricted video on Youtube and usually I just state that I am above 18 but now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it. I am not going to send this just to watch some random video clip that users have declared not appropriate to a young audience because it features a zombie. Seriously!
_solr perhaps you have the link to the video your interested in?
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#162It's pretty infurating that I've had a Youtube account since 2006 (15 years ago), and now they're asking me whether i'm over 18. A basic calculation on their end could filter the accounts based on age, given the TOS of when they were created (e.g. if the TOS specified that I must be over 13, a 2006 account would mean I'm at least 28, therefore automatically verified).
There's such clause in TOS and I think that's how it worked, unlike Twitter which locked out every account when they added the TOS clause for needing to be over 13 when the account was created.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
When parenting your own kids isn't enough, but you feel you need to parent everyone else's as well.
When you want to team up with other parents to make all of your lives easier.
"all your lives"? Or just the lives of a few, at the cost of the many?
Not all parents agree that this is the right thing to do.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Google probably doesn't want to validate users' age (because selling ads to impressionable kids is very lucrative) but they have to now. I mean, I hate this age validation as much as everyone else, curbing advertising to impressionable kids doesn't sound too stupid to me...
This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.
The same argument you are using is the justification for this. “It’s should be the parents decision to allow children to watch this content, not Google”
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All the videos start in potato quality for me now. What is going on? Surely they can afford the bandwidth of all services?
Are you, by chance, using Brave? I've noticed that recently with Brave as well. Didn't seem to happen in Chrome even when viewing the same videos on the same machine.
Firefox. Dark pattern to get people to use Chrome?
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#166It's pretty infurating that I've had a Youtube account since 2006 (15 years ago), and now they're asking me whether i'm over 18. A basic calculation on their end could filter the accounts based on age, given the TOS of when they were created (e.g. if the TOS specified that I must be over 13, a 2006 account would mean I'm at least 28, therefore automatically verified).
So you didn't create your Google account at age 3? That's impossible!
the 100th toddler theory:
given enough time and sufficient numbers of toddlers chewing on keyboards one of them will out of chance alone create a google account
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#167Re: YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if I have no credit card? (I have no credit card. I approach 6 decades in age.)
Don't debit cards work as well? If you have no debit or credit card, why would any for-profit enterprise want to interact with you in the first place?
Debit cards work if they're Visa or MasterCard, probably. Many countries have national card schemes for debit cards that do not work.
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AFAIK the age restriction credit card thing (inside the EU) is the result of some stupid law change (the Audiovisual Media Services Directive). Google probably doesn't want to validate users' age (because selling ads to impressionable kids is very lucrative) but they have to now.
> Google probably doesn't want to validate users' age (because selling ads to impressionable kids is very lucrative) but they have to now. I mean, I hate this age validation as much as everyone else, curbing advertising to impressionable kids doesn't sound too stupid to me...
I would much rather allow kids to watch trailers of Battlefield than to have to give Google pictures of my ID/passport. But that ship has sailed now. This is the new reality and it'll probably be applied to more websites in the future.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.
Sounds good. Say I'm a non-technical parent that wants to give my child access to YouTube but not allow them to watch content that they're not old enough to consume on their own. How should I do this? I want to give them the freedom to explore topics they're interested in so downloading some pre-approved videos isn't going to work. And my kid is smart and will realize that any account-specific setting can trivially b…
There is kind of no reasonable way to do it. Because the content is classified into two groups: for kids and not for kids which is too rough.
And a lot of what they want to watch is formally not for kids and you will be absolutely ok with them seeing it. Especially non English content.