Watching Age-Restricted Videos
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Watching Age-Restricted Videos
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Re: Watching Age-Restricted Videos
#2Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. For privacy reasons I don't use one to watch videos and I am certainly not providing an ID. So for European users non-compliant video platforms are preferable for any controversial content (Any platform will err on the side of caution when flagging content, as are users).
This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to content, probably on sites that are "worse" than Youtube. For Europeans everything on Youtube is now Youtube Kids.
Re: Watching Age-Restricted Videos
#3Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. For privacy reasons I don't use one to watch videos and I am certainly not providing an ID. So for European users non-compliant video platforms are preferable for any controversial content (Any platform will err on the side of caution when flagging content, as are users). This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to cont…
Is creating a google account more arduous than before? I've created dozens of them (including for my kids, where I had to be less than truthful about their age), and I have never had to provide an — OMFG I HAD NOT EXPANDED THE "If you're in the EU..." LINK!
:exploding_outraged_and_bewildered_head:
OK, you are right, this is governance done wrong.
Re: Watching Age-Restricted Videos
#4Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. For privacy reasons I don't use one to watch videos and I am certainly not providing an ID. So for European users non-compliant video platforms are preferable for any controversial content (Any platform will err on the side of caution when flagging content, as are users). This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to cont…
A 12 year old is going to sneak a picture of their parent's credit card or ID when they are busy and not paying attention. Or an older sibling's ID. Or share a photo of a valid ID among their friends.
Re: Watching Age-Restricted Videos
#5Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. For privacy reasons I don't use one to watch videos and I am certainly not providing an ID. So for European users non-compliant video platforms are preferable for any controversial content (Any platform will err on the side of caution when flagging content, as are users). This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to cont…
Is creating a google account more arduous than before? I've created dozens of them (including for my kids, where I had to be less than truthful about their age), and I have never had to provide an — OMFG I HAD NOT EXPANDED THE "If you're in the EU..." LINK! :exploding_outraged_and_bewildered_head: OK, you are right, this is governance done wrong.
I also like to not create an account because I enjoy non-profiled search. I dislike getting served the same mush over and over. But that is just a preference.
But yeah, the real problem is that we got age filter no. 4523.
There are alternative ways, but this should work for anyone currently affected:
https://githubmemory.com/repo/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age...
I think this implementation of the EU AVMSD forces users private data to be more likely to be exposed.
Re: Watching Age-Restricted Videos
#6Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. For privacy reasons I don't use one to watch videos and I am certainly not providing an ID. So for European users non-compliant video platforms are preferable for any controversial content (Any platform will err on the side of caution when flagging content, as are users). This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to cont…
Youtube does not age restrict many videos, it's seriously hard finding one that's neither gore nor porn and still age restricted.
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#7It's wonderful when I have to show my ID before I can watch a video of the funny man saying fuck (I'm not kidding, that's sometimes but usually not enough to get it automatically age-restricted).
Re: Watching Age-Restricted Videos
#8Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. For privacy reasons I don't use one to watch videos and I am certainly not providing an ID. So for European users non-compliant video platforms are preferable for any controversial content (Any platform will err on the side of caution when flagging content, as are users). This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to cont…
Is creating a google account more arduous than before? I've created dozens of them (including for my kids, where I had to be less than truthful about their age), and I have never had to provide an — OMFG I HAD NOT EXPANDED THE "If you're in the EU..." LINK! :exploding_outraged_and_bewildered_head: OK, you are right, this is governance done wrong.
Isn't it technically against the terms of service to have multiple accounts?
In which case, sure it might work for now, but at any point Google can decide to just lock you out of all of them.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is creating a google account more arduous than before? I've created dozens of them (including for my kids, where I had to be less than truthful about their age), and I have never had to provide an — OMFG I HAD NOT EXPANDED THE "If you're in the EU..." LINK! :exploding_outraged_and_bewildered_head: OK, you are right, this is governance done wrong.
Isn't it technically against the terms of service to have multiple accounts? In which case, sure it might work for now, but at any point Google can decide to just lock you out of all of them.
> Isn't it technically against the terms of service to have multiple accounts?
No.
Re: Watching Age-Restricted Videos
#10Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. For privacy reasons I don't use one to watch videos and I am certainly not providing an ID. So for European users non-compliant video platforms are preferable for any controversial content (Any platform will err on the side of caution when flagging content, as are users). This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to cont…
Youtube does not age restrict many videos, it's seriously hard finding one that's neither gore nor porn and still age restricted.
The only videos that have been asking me to prove that I’m over 18 are comedy ones that have typically been on YouTube for years.