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Spotify has video for some titles, particularly pop.
Usually its like a 30 second loop vs an actual music video.
We're rapidly approaching 30 seconds as the "standard" length for pop music.
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#202By market forces alone, Chinese censors will eventually gain control of YT and tell people of the world they what they can and cannot post. It's already happened to Hollywood movies.
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#203A 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!
I wonder if I could just wait a year and pass the filter on virtue of gmail-account being 18 years old...
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#204A 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!
That’s on the EU, not Youtube.
EU citizens needs to convince their government(s) that these age restrictions are not acceptable or live with the status quo.
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#205Am I the only one who didn't even know that youtube had age-restricted videos? Somehow I have managed to watch it for years without ever getting prompted for age confirmation!
Google got a pretty big fine in US due to not properly gating things for minors on YouTube (based on COPPA law). I guess this is now the result.
Fuck American hypocritical Hollywood, puritanical bullshit. Their kids are already watching gay horse sex and sheep bondage by the time they're 10.
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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?
I've had the same experience on Safari—in addition to the issue with Find no longer working in Google Docs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27351855).
I strongly suspect that at least part of the reason for these is to discourage people from using Google's properties with browsers other than Chrome (whether it was the reason for creating them, or just noted as a benefit for refusing to fix them once they were identified).
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#207Say there were a command-line or .rc option to confirm you're over age X. How much effort would it be to auto-generate or draw-from a pool of throwaway accounts that over age X?
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I set my age to about 3 months old in Skype and got locked out. They need my CC to verify my age because of COPA (child online protection act in the US) or something.
But other websites don't do this, so I don't think it's a COPPA thing.
I had this happen on a gaming forum, they upgraded to new forum software and pushed users through a 'update your account' flow. I accidentally set my year to the wrong number and ended up locked out of what had been a long-term username.
It was bad, actually, because they had developed a system where your username on the system was tied to your in-game nickname as well so I ended up locked out of both and had to create a new username/nick.
The admin of the website literally said "there's nothing I can do". I'm sure this isn't to do with the law specifically but just some limitation of their tools.
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#209It'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!
Well, if a 3-year old toddler watches age-restricted videos on his mother's verified account, is that against child protection laws?
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Apparently you'll need to scan an ID if you don't have a credit card, and I bet the EU has millions of young adults without a credit card. Either way, the end result is that you cannot use a video service without exposing your real identity to the service provider. And for what? Is there an epidemic of video clips wrecking children's minds I'm not aware of? Lacking that, this doesn't seem even remotely justified. All…
> And for what? Is there an epidemic of video clips wrecking children's minds I'm not aware of?
I mean... maybe. I have young children and have no desire to have them anywhere near YouTube for essentially as long as possible _because_ of that very concern.