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Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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Took a bit of poking, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgDQ5z7bNPs

That sound quality did something weird to my brain, I was convinced sound was accidentally coming out my laptop speakers not my headphones. I'm not even on my laptop, and I still took my headphones off to check.

Almost assuredly a video capture of a screen.

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Banks by law require substantial PII in order to even do business with you. And those laws are extremely invasive and should be repealed. It's offensive to have a law that de facto requires you to identify yourself in order to pay for a newspaper subscription or buy contraceptives over the internet. But that's not the issue in this case. It's that the bank knows your name and what you buy -- already very bad -- but…

Can't you pay cash for things like Visa gift cards and use them online?

At least in the US most places that sell gift cards require ID when purchased in cash

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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Wow, I realized today this is pretty crazy. but turns out it's old news, as old as Dec 2025, though the support page was only linked to in Jan 2026. https://web.archive.org/web/20251223014541/https://support.c... https://www.anthropic.com/news/protecting-well-being-of-user... The ToS already prohibited it when it showed up back in Feb 2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20240225205440/

Yeah, I don't understand why the title does not say (2024).
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