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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
As someone else mentioned in the comments, the "get cookies.txt" [0] extension works to circumvent the age restricted measure and i have been using it with success for weeks now. get the extension, export the cookies.txt file to a folder, then run youtube-dl in that folder with: youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt https://youtu.be/id it works as of right this minute [1] and in my experience that cookie continues to work…
But I don't want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don't want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what's there but I don't want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just u…
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I'm born in whatever far back year forms will let me choose in most internet services, over a 100 years old in a lot of cases, I assumed everyone did this.
Three dead trolls in a baggie even made a song about it way back in early 2000s. The privacy song, just fill their database with garbage. Also I'm a 43 year old nun.
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The things that you complain about are the reasons why Apple has become the most valuable company in the world.
Apple has become the most valuable company in the world because they own everyone's computers so anyone that wants to publish commercial software has to bend over for them. They're not valuable because of any service they provide.
Even then, ask yourself: Why do so many people pay $800 for an iPhone instead of $200 for some Android?
They didn't become #1 by selling $99 developer accounts.
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You work so hard explaining to your friends good infosec practice like not just typing their credit card in because some site wants to "verify their age" and then Google and Apple just go and fuck around with stuff like this. At this point the best advice you can give your friends is "stay the fuck away from computers unless you're willing to sit down and read a bunch of FOSSS manuals."
Related anecdote: A few years ago, my father bought a android tablet to my grand parents (both 85+). After watching them use it for a few minutes, I realized how user hostile the technical world has become: tons of ads popping up and asking for your attention (“click me”, “download x”, “make your device run faster”, etc). This and apps “redesigned” every few month, breaking the workflow they've struggled to learn (th…
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The things that you complain about are the reasons why Apple has become the most valuable company in the world.
Apple has become the most valuable company in the world because they own everyone's computers so anyone that wants to publish commercial software has to bend over for them. They're not valuable because of any service they provide.
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Say I'm a regular member of society and want to watch the trailer for a new Battlefield game. How should I do this? YouTube asks me to give them pictures of my ID for that. This is the mechanism that will be used for this right now. And it's all in the name of "protecting" children. This isn't some future hypothetical - it has already happened. I've been barred from a whole slew of content on YouTube because of this.…
I mean this already existed prior to YouTube, it's just that before you couldn't access the 18+ trailer at all outside of an R rated movie theater or late night TV because it had to be made for prime time and print where content restrictions were enforced. I don't see this as any different than a theater asking to see your ID before letting your buy an R rated movie ticket. I sympathize that it's annoying hell but yo…
Recently, my 15 year old Google account started to nag me for my birthday. If Google was smart, they could have worked out that I'm old enough by now! (The account is older than 13 so definitely not a kid behind it, lol)
But maybe your parents created the account for you, when you were not born yet?
Recently, my 15 year old Google account started to nag me for my birthday. If Google was smart, they could have worked out that I'm old enough by now! (The account is older than 13 so definitely not a kid behind it, lol)
True, but are you 18?