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Absolutely not.
Google's support page says otherwise https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#...
Credit cards in the EU are not very prominent as a payment method, mostly for paying USA companies.
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You need a credit card to watch age-restricted videos on YouTube.
Sorry, which videos? I mean it really, I'm from EU and have never found one. To watch some videos I have to login but have never ever asked me for a credit card that I recall. I'd like to know.
Blaming the EU is a common escape strategy, but I don't believe it in the slightest. Mind, I wouldn't believe anything coming out of the modern Google except "we want to make tracking you easier so we can sell more expensive ads".
Edit: if the evil EU "forced" them to require a credit card or my ID to watch Samuel L Jackson saying "motherfucker", why hasn't the same evil EU forced them to make it easy to opt out of all tracking?
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Google's support page says otherwise https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#...
This says ...or a valid id.... ,which is a lot more common than a credit card. Credit cards in the EU are not very prominent as a payment method, mostly for paying USA companies.
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Google's support page says otherwise https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#...
This says ...or a valid id.... ,which is a lot more common than a credit card. Credit cards in the EU are not very prominent as a payment method, mostly for paying USA companies.
People don’t realize how invasive the UK govt is when it comes to internet monitoring. Today if you try to access adult content on a UK mobile device you get blocked by age verification. You have to call your mobile provider and prove your age (it’s a once-per-contract thing). One of the ways you can prove your age is with a credit card. But I imagine it’s a large deterrent because not many people want to call Vodafo…
People don’t realize how invasive the UK govt is when it comes to internet monitoring. Today if you try to access adult content on a UK mobile device you get blocked by age verification. You have to call your mobile provider and prove your age (it’s a once-per-contract thing). One of the ways you can prove your age is with a credit card. But I imagine it’s a large deterrent because not many people want to call Vodafo…
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There are privacy preserving technologies that can do this. See the work of Jan Camenisch for example: https://jan.camenisch.org But I doubt anything so well thought out would be implemented for this. Current government suggestions are credit card checks, checking identity against government passport records, or your mobile phone service provider. I don't even understand the mobile phone one. My son has a mobile phon…
This might be a more helpful link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Anonymous_Attestation
https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.3/ide...
DAA solves a different problem.