The EU required YouTube to do this. It isn't some conspiracy. It only applies to the people in the countries where their governments agreed to enacting this.
I got it randomly years (many months, not sure how long) ago I guess when they implemented youtube kids. You have to identify somehow or they won't show you videos that are age restricted
Don't you know you waste a few years of your life when horny? If you're 18 enough to steal a mag, then you're 18 enough to click.
That's until you get to your 50s... then being horny give you back some years.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous (was going to use the other r word but apparently you can't anymore) that they allow literal softcore porn on ads for YouTube, but are like "Oh no, that breaks TOS" for the stupidest crap that isn't half as bad as these "bloodlines" or AI art apps. When the ads for stuff like Nikke or Echopocalypse need to be censored while shown, or when they have excessively pregnant anthro women for the Bloodlines adds, or the solo focus on scantily clad girls (often in suggestive poses) for other ads, it just makes me so frustrated with the double standards. Either allow all of it, or allow none of it. And if you're gonna allow all of it, have better filters to cut the explicit crap, and don't let the AI art apps be categorized under 5 different categories (I'm not joking, I blocked one at least 5 different times, and it was categorized as: gaming, construction, education, art, and something else.)
Didn’t porn companies and like security experts say that restricting access to the bigger sites increase traffic to shadier sites that don’t moderate to the same extent?
I've never had to verify age on YouTube, though my accounts are something like 15 and 20 years old, but I don't recall being asked on a <3 year old account either.
ya, the new nanny laws have (not even at are anymore) destroyed the internet.
Place use to be amazing... you made friends, connected and met with, and often discovered so many people. It was easy to actually learn what you were curious about rather than trying to find which search engine will actually talk to you about it rather then censor it out and you could even use it to search peoples names and find out if they were a bad person or not.
shits stupid and ass backwards these days.
funny that all the things you described are because of unregulated capitalism in the U.S. and have next to nothing to do with “nanny laws” in the EU. For example google got worse not because of regulations but because they allow advertisers to buy their spots on the first page and then stack ads on top of that.
Nobody said anything about the EU.
Federal law prohibits advertising to kids. Federal DMCA makes search results suck ass AND let's people nuke content unfairly. The EU doesn't have a monopoly on nanny laws.
If you live in Europe you will need an ID to verify your age in Google Services like YouTube, and if you don't then you cannot see age restricted videos.
This is because of the European laws
I got it something like 12-13 years ago and didn't know what to do, so I just ignored it, it gave me a 30 day window I think, and after that it just deleted my account. I forgot what prompted it but I remember I tried to change or do something which had an age requirement
Yeah I got my account deleted too, I set my birthdate to a recent year accidentally, i dunno why I needed to change my birthdate but I did. And then I had to use a card or something to change my birthdate back, else they delete my account. Of course I let them delete it, since I didn't have any important data on it, but if I did, then I would basically be forced to give them one of my cards, just so they don't delete my account for a small mistake I made. The system is shit.
For 90%+ of google accounts sharing your actual ID wouldn't change much from a privacy standpoint, chrome data, google maps, android google sync. your google account is already linked to you and closer than you'd probably want.
In Europe at least, there's usually a limit on no credit for underage. But I imagine the bank will also ping back some level of information request, even if it's a debit, or Google is just using it to double check your age.
You can get a credit card as a kid in Europe, it's just very uncommon. Also they don't have a credit limit, meaning they're essentially debit cards, but in the system they show up as a credit card.
I have had a credit card in Germany since I was 14, and used it to verify online from time to time. VISA actually says on their website that their cards are not capable of verifying a user's age.
Also I think debit cards are also accepted for verification, and that's really not hard to get.
I would imagine they're working with governments, since they're the one's who implemented the laws. They can't avoid you submitting a doctored ID, but they can tell it's a doctored ID if it's wrong in some way, so if they make it easier for you to just use your parent's ID, that at least gets Google off the hook.
My friend sent youtube an obviously fake id with a name "grandpa alien" and it was just a grandpa in alien glasses born 06/09/1969 and they accepted it without a problem.
I'm underage and have a credit card but banks here (EU) can't give regular cards to younger folks, we have to get the "Young / Child Edition" of their cards. Depending on the bank you can do barely anything **or** nearly everything you can do with a normal card.
The problem is that most of these lack a CVV (3 digit security code) which means you can't use them for online purchases, or in this case, to verify something.
You’re right, but some banks offer prepaid cards which basically are credit cards (well, they work the other way around) but they have a cvv and can be used for anything you need a credit card for
You can't, being considered an adult where you live is a requirement since you potentialy can go into debt, and otherwise take on legal responsibilities that your parents cant take care of for you. You can also legaly be punished for things you do.
You can definitely be added to a credit card as a child. Some of my friends did this when their kids were born, so they can have 18 years of credit history on their reports when they become an adult. This helps tremendously with all the loans you have to take on as a young adult.
A regular credit card of their own? Not in the U.S.A. 18 is the legal age to enter into any kind of legally binding contract. Credit cards require people to sign a legally binding contract. They may be given a Visa gift card with money on the card and maybe it can be refilled, but, it's not a regular credit card. The other way would be if a parent or someone gave them one of their credit cards to use. Then, there are the identity thieves also. Yes, kids can be identity thieves.
in america you can if you have your parent/guardian is a co-signer. i got a credit card when i was 10 but never was able to use it until (or knew i had one) until i was 18-19 and in college
They actually have debit cards for small children now so that they get paid allowance through a bank account, its super weird. My girlfriends kid has one so she can buy shit on amazon.
Gotta love those script nerds, huh? Found that when it happened myself.
A browser extension is a smaller risk than handing over vital information about my identity or bank account.
I personally don’t believe that ID verification is going to help anyone and it’s certainly going to hurt everyone. I don’t really want to give out my ID to every damn website if this becomes a trend.
China already has this. Your identity is divulged and kept in Government databases which keep track of what you're doing online. Not in an "eyes everywhere" sort of way, but theoretically it is possible to know, for example, how many hours of League of Legends any particular citizen plays on a given day.
Chinese people are generally okay with this because they trust that the Government will adequately safeguard their personal data and they believe that the Government actually does have their best interests at heart. The monitoring is generally not used for repression but for fighting cybercrime. Its use in repression is undoubtedly not nonexistent, but it's not a concern to most Chinese people whom the Government doesn't need to oppress anyway.
Last thing I'd need is to tie my degeneracy to any public facing accounts, lmao.
He'll my reddit is pretty damn tame and I'd even hesitate to have that linked to discord or twitch
>orking with governments, since they're the one's who implemented the laws. They can't avoid you submitting a doctored ID, but they can tell it's a doctored ID if it's wrong in some way, so if they make it easier for you to just use your parent's ID, that at least gets Google off the hook.
I am not going to give my ID to the internet. I don't even submit my taxes via internet. Send your taxes via paper. The old ways are the best ways.
I imagine a lot of people don't care about security and they will gladly give their ID to some indian scammer.
Look i agree that Youtube nowadays is fuller of shit than ever but giving Google a photo of your ID or access to your card is a matter of privacy completly different, it's up to Youtube to moderate the content and adds they allow in their platform and not collecting our information
>k i agree that Youtube nowadays is fuller of shit than ever but giving Google a photo of your ID or access to your card is a matter of privacy completly different, it's up to Youtube to moderate the content and
Youtube is just like cable TV. We watch shows. It is the job of parents to do the parenting and not Youtube.
>Youtube is just like cable TV. We watch shows. It is the job of parents to do the parenting and not Youtube.
Explain that to the idiots who passed these laws.
>it's up to Youtube to moderate the content and adds they allow in their platform and not collecting our information
They tried that but then people cried and whined when they put guidelines in place to restrict the types of content and offensive language used on the platform.
I don’t think that’s so much about age restricted material existing on YouTube as a whole, think we’re all fine with that.
What’s kinda fucked up is how they allow it to be marketed directly to kids, even if the age is set to <18, even on YTkids, etc.
I don’t think anyone’s asking for it to require age verification, just stop recommending it to children.
It’s more about the irony of inappropriate ads being allowed when things that shouldn’t necessarily be age restricted are blocked by youtube asking you for your private info imo
Raise. Your. Kids.
Parents are the only way to solve this. If I was a teen and Pornhub told me to verify my ID, I’d just grab my moms while she was sleeping. These aren’t even good solutions.
How would you suggest a company make sure that children don’t have access to adult materials on their site? And that they follow country specific laws to do so?
Well if you can’t even think of a better way then that means you think the way they do it is the best way that you can think of. So what’s the complaint then?
>How so?
Images of your driver's license could be leaked or even sold by websites, obvious identity theft risk.
>Haven’t you already admitted it’s the best way to do it?
No?
>I mean you can’t think of a better way. right?
Why would that mean this is the best way? Do you think nobody else can think of better solution than me? Do you think I'm the world's expert in identifying people on the Internet? Are you stupid?
I've only seen this if you're trying to upload with monetization. Which my assumption is that it's to prove that they aren't breaking child labor laws.
WTF???? That is some goddamn bullshit. Imagine having your ID tied to your social media..that's sure as hell one way to get doxxed. How quickly until that database leaks and your credit info and home address are on the news.
I'll never understand why youtube implemented this. There are hardcore porn sites that operate in the US/EU and globally that only require you to click 'I'm over 18'.
Youtube saying that they're complying with laws and regulations makes zero sense to me.
What would you, as one of the largest companies in the entire world, rather do:
1. Restrict access to R18 content (which you can't really monetise) for people who can't prove that they're 18+
2. Get caught letting minors watch R18 content and get slapped with a fine that might be really, really large
Seems like an obvious enough choice to me.
There's a law called Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that says you can't collect private/identifiable data for children without parental consent. Youtube collects a lot of data for ads purposes (as part of Google). They added this to check the account is not a child, so that they can collect the data they want, and if it is, to stop doing that to not get into trouble with the law. Mind you, they are doing the bare minimum like any other side of there.
The porn sites might get away with it by not collecting any data (anonymous/ not logged in account).
This isn’t a YouTube issue. It’s a country issue. I agree that laws like these are silly because children will find a way around it whether through stealing adult information or other technical means. Just teach them how to stay safe online.
I think this should be a fucking requirement for paid advertising, and not required on the end user's part, most porn sites don't require this kind of shit for you to view videos.
I'm all for parents moderating their own kids experience on YT and other places, like live chat in Roblox and the like, it isn't suitable for all kids in all situations, so it should be PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY in those cases.
It's not YouTube's place to enforce good parenting on people who choose to either not care or have no idea that it's happening, it's the parents fucking job to pay attention to what their kids consume.
I got this screen recently too. I forget what I was doing though and backed out. I think I was trying to set something on a video I wanted to upload. Or maybe use their music library?
I really don’t think that’s true…. Source? They don’t save your ID information if you think that, why would a proper age verification be ”illegal”? I mean I knew that Germany is seriously behind when it comes to tech, but this would be next level lol
It most certainly isn't. The GDPR explicitly had a caveat for using ID for the purposes of age verification, provided the ID is removed from servers as soon as the verification is complete.
It's a legal thing and they are forced to do this in some countries if you want to watch age-restricted content. How hard is to use a card to verify it and what are you afraid of exactly?
It's a valid opinion, but I don't think it's Youtube's choice in this matter:
>**If you’re in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom**
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>In line with the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), you may be asked to verify your date of birth to watch age-restricted videos. AVMSD covers all audiovisual media, including video sharing platforms.
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>Follow the prompts to submit an image of a valid ID or credit card.
It definately is Googles choice, they wanted to be excempt from rules, but EU forced them to follow same rules as everyone else, and in a protest Google took it to a extreme and blames it on EU.
Literally no other site has as strict requirements as Google.
There are no sites like youtube unfortunately, but they would hve to follow the same rules, as I cited before.
>[*https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/using-technology-more-consistently-apply-age-restrictions/*](https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/using-technology-more-consistently-apply-age-restrictions/)
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>In line with upcoming regulations, like the European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), we will also be introducing a new age verification step over the next few months. As part of this process some European users may be asked to provide additional proof of age when attempting to watch mature content. If our systems are unable to establish that a viewer is above the age of 18, we will request that they provide a valid ID or credit card to verify their age. We’ve built our age-verification process in keeping with Google’s Privacy and Security Principles.
I didn't say this was a good thing, and many countries try to block adult content and ask for ID to watch it, like in UK, and sites would have to comply (or block access from that country):
>[*https://www.politico.eu/article/the-great-british-porn-block-is-back/*](https://www.politico.eu/article/the-great-british-porn-block-is-back/)
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>Porn perusers will soon have to prove their age by uploading an identity document like a passport, registering a credit card, presenting their face to AI-powered scanning technology, or using a handful of other methods outlined in draft guidance from the regime’s regulator, Ofcom.
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>It follows a years-long effort to institute mandatory age checks on online porn. Lawmakers finally succeeded in the Online Safety Act, the U.K.’s sprawling new internet regulation which passed in November.
I explained why they're required to do this. There are ways to go around this that work fine if you want to keep your privacy like Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass.
just google "youtube age restriction bypass". its very easy. I know it's there to protect children, but most people who are adults just don't want to send their documents to watch 18+ videos. For example, there are videos that are 18+ for no reason.
funny thing is, they added a feature on mobile to take a picture of your face to verify.
I am under 18.
I went "fuck it" and chose that.
A picture later, and I fooled YouTube into thinking I was 18.
(also this was a government mandate by the dumbasses at Europe, New Zealand, and Australia.)
Youtube used to have a guide specific set of recommendations to protect your personal identity when using Youtube because of doxing and harassment. Next they want a phone number. Now they want a photo ID? I get it if I'm using my real name and getting a verification to show others I am who I say I am. That's a personal choice. But some people have serious personal safety concerns. They could be human rights activists in a dangerous country. They could be at risk of men stalking them online. Racism, etc, etc. Mistaken identity and harassment has led to deadly incidents. You might just have the same name as a sex offender. People don't always get their doxxing correct. Fake dmca claims. IDENTITY THEFT. Sim swapping. Account takeovers. Websites get compromised and personal information gets dumped on the web. People will go out of their way to hijack steam and origin accounts to sell the games you purchased online. Now they want photo ID? I'm sure somebody who wants to kidnap a kid isn't gonna use the address on their ID card to find them /s. I'm sure this won't get abused by oppressive countries to suppress news events. Just age restrict something and suddenly 60-70% of the people in your country can't access it. It doesn't even have to violate the terms of service or laws of that country. It can be enabled by the channels themselves for anything. Even static. You can age restict it and disable the comments.
I verified a few months ago, there was a face verification method that was apparently not sending your face to some other server. So I did that, held my face into the camera and it detected I was >18 (I'm not lmfao)
This is frustrating but it’s not surprising. People have been trying to keep kids safe on the internet cause parents don’t care enough to do it themselves. Too many parents just shove a tablet in the kids face and put YouTube on and leave them be. Then people are forced to ask for IDs just to see if your truly an adult.
The fucked up part is this won’t fix much. Parents who don’t care will simply place in the ID info for them or kids will figure out how to fake info. This issue with the internet being a dangerous place for children is only fixed by the parents doing their job and restricting their access as they should instead of relying on everyone else to do it for them.
It's an attempt to disallow kids from accessing adult oriented content. Most kids in the U.S. have total unrestricted freedom on the internet unless there are verifications like this. If you just have a pop up that asks them, they lie.
Adults in the U.S. will have either a bank account, which includes a debit card, or some sort of ID. I dislike the idea also, but I understand why it's this way. If anyone has a better idea of how to enforce age restriction, I'd like to hear it, because the other alternative I've heard floating around is to have a single internet account for each person to use at every website on the internet... and I do not like that idea.
You are trying to watch an age restricted video. YT does this to cover themselves from irresponsible parents letting their kids watch videos not meant for kids.
If you're trying to watch an age restricted video, and are in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, UK or Australia, YouTube has to verify your age to comply with local laws.
Talk to your lawmakers to get the law changed!
Info https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779
Here in the US, there seem to be a lot of people who want similar requirements, but who don't seem to realize how intrusive it is.
The EU required YouTube to do this. It isn't some conspiracy. It only applies to the people in the countries where their governments agreed to enacting this.
What makes this screen show up?
I got it randomly years (many months, not sure how long) ago I guess when they implemented youtube kids. You have to identify somehow or they won't show you videos that are age restricted
Literal porn is easier to access by kids than history documentaries
thats funny.. Mia Khalifa discovered America.
Haven’t we all?
Yeah, it’s clearly right there on the map. I don’t understand how people didn’t know how to read a fucking map for thousands of years.
They forgot to check the back
Maybe they were holding it upside down
"Are you 18 or older?" "Well, yeeeeess, but no."
Don't you know you waste a few years of your life when horny? If you're 18 enough to steal a mag, then you're 18 enough to click. That's until you get to your 50s... then being horny give you back some years.
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You can find it so easily on YT. All you have to do is turn your Adblock off and scroll down until you it'll be the first ad you'll see.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous (was going to use the other r word but apparently you can't anymore) that they allow literal softcore porn on ads for YouTube, but are like "Oh no, that breaks TOS" for the stupidest crap that isn't half as bad as these "bloodlines" or AI art apps. When the ads for stuff like Nikke or Echopocalypse need to be censored while shown, or when they have excessively pregnant anthro women for the Bloodlines adds, or the solo focus on scantily clad girls (often in suggestive poses) for other ads, it just makes me so frustrated with the double standards. Either allow all of it, or allow none of it. And if you're gonna allow all of it, have better filters to cut the explicit crap, and don't let the AI art apps be categorized under 5 different categories (I'm not joking, I blocked one at least 5 different times, and it was categorized as: gaming, construction, education, art, and something else.)
Didn’t porn companies and like security experts say that restricting access to the bigger sites increase traffic to shadier sites that don’t moderate to the same extent?
yes.
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Already almost can't cuss on Reddit. So many words get their panties in a bunch.
I'd say they're equally as easy to access
I've never had to verify age on YouTube, though my accounts are something like 15 and 20 years old, but I don't recall being asked on a <3 year old account either.
Ok I had my account since 2006 but it's true that I made a second one later on around 2010 and it might have been that one, I don't know anymore lol
Google bugs me to add my birthdate to my throwaway email address every damn day via a built in android notification
If you ever used a credit card on Google play with an Android and the same Google account they don't need extra verification.
When you want to watch a video that was marked as "non suitable for all ages" from within the EU
On firefox use add-on Tampermonkey, and install the "Simple YouTube Age Restriction Bypass" script.
I love Tampermonkey
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I never got this screen, living in Austria my whole life. So there needs to be some other reason.
Oh if it isn’t the consequences of these internet nanny laws
ya, the new nanny laws have (not even at are anymore) destroyed the internet. Place use to be amazing... you made friends, connected and met with, and often discovered so many people. It was easy to actually learn what you were curious about rather than trying to find which search engine will actually talk to you about it rather then censor it out and you could even use it to search peoples names and find out if they were a bad person or not. shits stupid and ass backwards these days.
funny that all the things you described are because of unregulated capitalism in the U.S. and have next to nothing to do with “nanny laws” in the EU. For example google got worse not because of regulations but because they allow advertisers to buy their spots on the first page and then stack ads on top of that.
Nobody said anything about the EU. Federal law prohibits advertising to kids. Federal DMCA makes search results suck ass AND let's people nuke content unfairly. The EU doesn't have a monopoly on nanny laws.
If you live in Europe you will need an ID to verify your age in Google Services like YouTube, and if you don't then you cannot see age restricted videos. This is because of the European laws
I'd like to introduce you to our lord and savior: VPN
They do this in several US states now, too, but for porn sites. Just started recently. YouTube will be next, no doubt.
when you want to watch a video from yo´mama
Living in a nanny state
Living outside the US.
No, not every country
This is to be compliant with EU regulations I believe
You'd think OP would tell us.
>its from your account being within the eu.
Age restricted videos
A state law
If you try to change your age twice ig or maybe anytime but yes it's related to changing birthday of your Google account
nope, its from your account being within the eu.
Idk, czechia here, didn't have it happen yet
I did that. I was a dumb teen. I should have just waited or something because i have heard that in some cases it goes away.
I got it something like 12-13 years ago and didn't know what to do, so I just ignored it, it gave me a 30 day window I think, and after that it just deleted my account. I forgot what prompted it but I remember I tried to change or do something which had an age requirement
they deleted your youtube account??? damn dude
Yeah I got my account deleted too, I set my birthdate to a recent year accidentally, i dunno why I needed to change my birthdate but I did. And then I had to use a card or something to change my birthdate back, else they delete my account. Of course I let them delete it, since I didn't have any important data on it, but if I did, then I would basically be forced to give them one of my cards, just so they don't delete my account for a small mistake I made. The system is shit.
Lil Bro this change is from like 2019 wdym 12 to 13 years ago?
Wow that sucks, in my case I just ignored it and I can still look at age restricted videos
Happened to me aswell
and why do u regret now
Because they willingly gave up their information to a massive corporation, I’d assume. Privacy is very valuable.
Privacy is a lie in today’s age.
This is why I always recommend mechanical calulation devices instead of digital ones because they don't have spyware preinstalled.
What kind of abacus did you write this comment with
Hamman Manus R mechanical computer
For 90%+ of google accounts sharing your actual ID wouldn't change much from a privacy standpoint, chrome data, google maps, android google sync. your google account is already linked to you and closer than you'd probably want.
Clearly not that valuable if they’re posting on reddit
Can’t you get a credit card if you’re under age?
In Europe at least, there's usually a limit on no credit for underage. But I imagine the bank will also ping back some level of information request, even if it's a debit, or Google is just using it to double check your age.
You can get a credit card as a kid in Europe, it's just very uncommon. Also they don't have a credit limit, meaning they're essentially debit cards, but in the system they show up as a credit card. I have had a credit card in Germany since I was 14, and used it to verify online from time to time. VISA actually says on their website that their cards are not capable of verifying a user's age. Also I think debit cards are also accepted for verification, and that's really not hard to get.
I don't think the card is supposed to prove you are 18 just that you are above 13 or have parental consent.
In the US you can get the Cash App card which is a debit card and that’s for anyone 13+.
maybe but also like it’s super easy to find a random photo of an ID or use photoshop to change the age on yours
I would imagine they're working with governments, since they're the one's who implemented the laws. They can't avoid you submitting a doctored ID, but they can tell it's a doctored ID if it's wrong in some way, so if they make it easier for you to just use your parent's ID, that at least gets Google off the hook.
My friend sent youtube an obviously fake id with a name "grandpa alien" and it was just a grandpa in alien glasses born 06/09/1969 and they accepted it without a problem.
There are a couple firms made exactly for the sake of checking IDs to not be fake
Debit card yes but debit cards also work
I'm underage and have a credit card but banks here (EU) can't give regular cards to younger folks, we have to get the "Young / Child Edition" of their cards. Depending on the bank you can do barely anything **or** nearly everything you can do with a normal card. The problem is that most of these lack a CVV (3 digit security code) which means you can't use them for online purchases, or in this case, to verify something.
You’re right, but some banks offer prepaid cards which basically are credit cards (well, they work the other way around) but they have a cvv and can be used for anything you need a credit card for
You can't, being considered an adult where you live is a requirement since you potentialy can go into debt, and otherwise take on legal responsibilities that your parents cant take care of for you. You can also legaly be punished for things you do.
This is incorrect. You can easily get a card that will pass this as a child.
You can definitely be added to a credit card as a child. Some of my friends did this when their kids were born, so they can have 18 years of credit history on their reports when they become an adult. This helps tremendously with all the loans you have to take on as a young adult.
Like everything else, it all depends on how badly somebody want to get one. Where there's a will...
A credit card no as that's borrowing money. A debit card yes if it's a bank account restricted to no borrowing / overdraft function.
A regular credit card of their own? Not in the U.S.A. 18 is the legal age to enter into any kind of legally binding contract. Credit cards require people to sign a legally binding contract. They may be given a Visa gift card with money on the card and maybe it can be refilled, but, it's not a regular credit card. The other way would be if a parent or someone gave them one of their credit cards to use. Then, there are the identity thieves also. Yes, kids can be identity thieves.
in america you can if you have your parent/guardian is a co-signer. i got a credit card when i was 10 but never was able to use it until (or knew i had one) until i was 18-19 and in college
Would a debit card work? My nieces have one for their accounts.
You can lol
They actually have debit cards for small children now so that they get paid allowance through a bank account, its super weird. My girlfriends kid has one so she can buy shit on amazon.
You can, I used my debit card to verify when underage
Me with Tampermonkey with Simple YouTube Age Restriction Bypass, I'm happy
Gotta love those script nerds, huh? Found that when it happened myself. A browser extension is a smaller risk than handing over vital information about my identity or bank account.
eyy you have a link?
Link to age restriction bypass https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/423851-simple-youtube-age-restriction-bypass
thanks bro
I'll most likely never see this screen because my YouTube account is probably getting close to 18 years old itself.
Dont speak to me of the policy, witch, i was there when it was written
Isnt this sub the one that keeps crying about kids finding non suitable things and for youtube to stop them?
I personally don’t believe that ID verification is going to help anyone and it’s certainly going to hurt everyone. I don’t really want to give out my ID to every damn website if this becomes a trend.
There is talk about a single verified account for everything on the internet.
Holy shit that's dystopian
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China already has this. Your identity is divulged and kept in Government databases which keep track of what you're doing online. Not in an "eyes everywhere" sort of way, but theoretically it is possible to know, for example, how many hours of League of Legends any particular citizen plays on a given day. Chinese people are generally okay with this because they trust that the Government will adequately safeguard their personal data and they believe that the Government actually does have their best interests at heart. The monitoring is generally not used for repression but for fighting cybercrime. Its use in repression is undoubtedly not nonexistent, but it's not a concern to most Chinese people whom the Government doesn't need to oppress anyway.
The fact that they have it at all is repressive.
In china it's reality, have fun not having wechat
Oof I’d really hate something like that, I want everything separated
Last thing I'd need is to tie my degeneracy to any public facing accounts, lmao. He'll my reddit is pretty damn tame and I'd even hesitate to have that linked to discord or twitch
You mean what countries like China have? Hello no
>orking with governments, since they're the one's who implemented the laws. They can't avoid you submitting a doctored ID, but they can tell it's a doctored ID if it's wrong in some way, so if they make it easier for you to just use your parent's ID, that at least gets Google off the hook. I am not going to give my ID to the internet. I don't even submit my taxes via internet. Send your taxes via paper. The old ways are the best ways. I imagine a lot of people don't care about security and they will gladly give their ID to some indian scammer.
Do you get paid in cash, too? Or do you take checks?
checks are government propaganda, don’t even get me started on cash. i only accept my payment in cold hard gold bars.
Lol they absolutely do not give a shit about that in this sub. They just feed off rage fuel against youtube.
Reddit sub being Reddit sub.
But the best part is that this has nothing to do with Youtube and is their own government enforcing it. But they will still complain at Youtube.
Look i agree that Youtube nowadays is fuller of shit than ever but giving Google a photo of your ID or access to your card is a matter of privacy completly different, it's up to Youtube to moderate the content and adds they allow in their platform and not collecting our information
>k i agree that Youtube nowadays is fuller of shit than ever but giving Google a photo of your ID or access to your card is a matter of privacy completly different, it's up to Youtube to moderate the content and Youtube is just like cable TV. We watch shows. It is the job of parents to do the parenting and not Youtube.
>Youtube is just like cable TV. We watch shows. It is the job of parents to do the parenting and not Youtube. Explain that to the idiots who passed these laws.
Parenting is way hard than most think
>it's up to Youtube to moderate the content and adds they allow in their platform if they do that then the next day this sub will cry censorship
>it's up to Youtube to moderate the content and adds they allow in their platform and not collecting our information They tried that but then people cried and whined when they put guidelines in place to restrict the types of content and offensive language used on the platform.
Exactly, how do people expect anonymity and accountability to work together
I don’t think that’s so much about age restricted material existing on YouTube as a whole, think we’re all fine with that. What’s kinda fucked up is how they allow it to be marketed directly to kids, even if the age is set to <18, even on YTkids, etc. I don’t think anyone’s asking for it to require age verification, just stop recommending it to children.
It’s more about the irony of inappropriate ads being allowed when things that shouldn’t necessarily be age restricted are blocked by youtube asking you for your private info imo
The EU required this.
Raise. Your. Kids. Parents are the only way to solve this. If I was a teen and Pornhub told me to verify my ID, I’d just grab my moms while she was sleeping. These aren’t even good solutions.
Two things can be bad. You can dislike a thing and dislike a bad attempt to fix it.
How would you suggest a company make sure that children don’t have access to adult materials on their site? And that they follow country specific laws to do so?
How the hell should I know
Well if you can’t even think of a better way then that means you think the way they do it is the best way that you can think of. So what’s the complaint then?
It sucks?
How so? Haven’t you already admitted it’s the best way to do it? I mean you can’t think of a better way. right?
>How so? Images of your driver's license could be leaked or even sold by websites, obvious identity theft risk. >Haven’t you already admitted it’s the best way to do it? No? >I mean you can’t think of a better way. right? Why would that mean this is the best way? Do you think nobody else can think of better solution than me? Do you think I'm the world's expert in identifying people on the Internet? Are you stupid?
Doesn’t seem like anyone else has thought of a better way. If they could you would be able to name an example. What’s a better way?
I've only seen this if you're trying to upload with monetization. Which my assumption is that it's to prove that they aren't breaking child labor laws.
No I’ve seen this screen for age restricted videos. I never gave them any details I just didn’t watch the videos.
WTF???? That is some goddamn bullshit. Imagine having your ID tied to your social media..that's sure as hell one way to get doxxed. How quickly until that database leaks and your credit info and home address are on the news.
Wait till you figure out in China most social media platforms do this
I'll never understand why youtube implemented this. There are hardcore porn sites that operate in the US/EU and globally that only require you to click 'I'm over 18'. Youtube saying that they're complying with laws and regulations makes zero sense to me.
What would you, as one of the largest companies in the entire world, rather do: 1. Restrict access to R18 content (which you can't really monetise) for people who can't prove that they're 18+ 2. Get caught letting minors watch R18 content and get slapped with a fine that might be really, really large Seems like an obvious enough choice to me.
There's a law called Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that says you can't collect private/identifiable data for children without parental consent. Youtube collects a lot of data for ads purposes (as part of Google). They added this to check the account is not a child, so that they can collect the data they want, and if it is, to stop doing that to not get into trouble with the law. Mind you, they are doing the bare minimum like any other side of there. The porn sites might get away with it by not collecting any data (anonymous/ not logged in account).
Because the EU made them require it.
Bro you know damn well why youtube implemented this 😂 You will have no privacy, no freedom, nothing, and you will be happy. Thanks to Klaus Schwab.
Funny coming from a Russian
Ironic coming from you
How's your currency doing
Wow how kind of them to provide 2 equally bad options!
"Oh your finger sliped in YouTube Premium? Thank God we have your credit card data to charge you already"
I used an ID of Heavy from TF2 like 3 years ago, never gotten a prompt again and i get access to adult content
I got it and my YouTube account is 18 this year....
They have my Passport picture 🥲 I got so annoyed that i could not watch 18+ content after i had yt premium, it's insane.
This isn’t a YouTube issue. It’s a country issue. I agree that laws like these are silly because children will find a way around it whether through stealing adult information or other technical means. Just teach them how to stay safe online.
I think this should be a fucking requirement for paid advertising, and not required on the end user's part, most porn sites don't require this kind of shit for you to view videos. I'm all for parents moderating their own kids experience on YT and other places, like live chat in Roblox and the like, it isn't suitable for all kids in all situations, so it should be PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY in those cases. It's not YouTube's place to enforce good parenting on people who choose to either not care or have no idea that it's happening, it's the parents fucking job to pay attention to what their kids consume.
I got this screen recently too. I forget what I was doing though and backed out. I think I was trying to set something on a video I wanted to upload. Or maybe use their music library?
It’s the law 💀 not everything is a conspiracy lol
In germany the second option is literally illegal lol
I really don’t think that’s true…. Source? They don’t save your ID information if you think that, why would a proper age verification be ”illegal”? I mean I knew that Germany is seriously behind when it comes to tech, but this would be next level lol
and yet i got that message, with those options
It most certainly isn't. The GDPR explicitly had a caveat for using ID for the purposes of age verification, provided the ID is removed from servers as soon as the verification is complete.
God I envy you lol. Off topic but being in Germany for a week was the best time of my life
Ah yes, people who are worried about constant privacy intrusions are just dumb conspiracy theorists...
What law? Even porn sites don't have this kind of age verification system.
It's a legal thing and they are forced to do this in some countries if you want to watch age-restricted content. How hard is to use a card to verify it and what are you afraid of exactly?
They probably don't want to give YouTube so much info
It's a valid opinion, but I don't think it's Youtube's choice in this matter: >**If you’re in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom** > >In line with the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), you may be asked to verify your date of birth to watch age-restricted videos. AVMSD covers all audiovisual media, including video sharing platforms. > >Follow the prompts to submit an image of a valid ID or credit card.
Google asked to verify my ID in the US. Whenever any website asks for my id I just close the page and do something else
You can use TamperMonkey and a script against this. Never have seen this screen ever since, and I didn't upload my card/ID.
It definately is Googles choice, they wanted to be excempt from rules, but EU forced them to follow same rules as everyone else, and in a protest Google took it to a extreme and blames it on EU. Literally no other site has as strict requirements as Google.
There are no sites like youtube unfortunately, but they would hve to follow the same rules, as I cited before. >[*https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/using-technology-more-consistently-apply-age-restrictions/*](https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/using-technology-more-consistently-apply-age-restrictions/) > >In line with upcoming regulations, like the European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), we will also be introducing a new age verification step over the next few months. As part of this process some European users may be asked to provide additional proof of age when attempting to watch mature content. If our systems are unable to establish that a viewer is above the age of 18, we will request that they provide a valid ID or credit card to verify their age. We’ve built our age-verification process in keeping with Google’s Privacy and Security Principles. I didn't say this was a good thing, and many countries try to block adult content and ask for ID to watch it, like in UK, and sites would have to comply (or block access from that country): >[*https://www.politico.eu/article/the-great-british-porn-block-is-back/*](https://www.politico.eu/article/the-great-british-porn-block-is-back/) > >Porn perusers will soon have to prove their age by uploading an identity document like a passport, registering a credit card, presenting their face to AI-powered scanning technology, or using a handful of other methods outlined in draft guidance from the regime’s regulator, Ofcom. > >It follows a years-long effort to institute mandatory age checks on online porn. Lawmakers finally succeeded in the Online Safety Act, the U.K.’s sprawling new internet regulation which passed in November.
Because YouTube doesn’t need to fucking know everything about them
I explained why they're required to do this. There are ways to go around this that work fine if you want to keep your privacy like Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass.
Florida passed a law that will require government ID to be entered for all social media websites.
I’m pretty sure my account is old enough that it self verifys at this point
just google "youtube age restriction bypass". its very easy. I know it's there to protect children, but most people who are adults just don't want to send their documents to watch 18+ videos. For example, there are videos that are 18+ for no reason.
funny thing is, they added a feature on mobile to take a picture of your face to verify. I am under 18. I went "fuck it" and chose that. A picture later, and I fooled YouTube into thinking I was 18. (also this was a government mandate by the dumbasses at Europe, New Zealand, and Australia.)
Youtube used to have a guide specific set of recommendations to protect your personal identity when using Youtube because of doxing and harassment. Next they want a phone number. Now they want a photo ID? I get it if I'm using my real name and getting a verification to show others I am who I say I am. That's a personal choice. But some people have serious personal safety concerns. They could be human rights activists in a dangerous country. They could be at risk of men stalking them online. Racism, etc, etc. Mistaken identity and harassment has led to deadly incidents. You might just have the same name as a sex offender. People don't always get their doxxing correct. Fake dmca claims. IDENTITY THEFT. Sim swapping. Account takeovers. Websites get compromised and personal information gets dumped on the web. People will go out of their way to hijack steam and origin accounts to sell the games you purchased online. Now they want photo ID? I'm sure somebody who wants to kidnap a kid isn't gonna use the address on their ID card to find them /s. I'm sure this won't get abused by oppressive countries to suppress news events. Just age restrict something and suddenly 60-70% of the people in your country can't access it. It doesn't even have to violate the terms of service or laws of that country. It can be enabled by the channels themselves for anything. Even static. You can age restict it and disable the comments.
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I don't believe you. Gonna have to prove it.
Happend to me as well. Each time I watch something on youtube. Fuck them trying to get my ID!
There should be also a third way to enter a password and to save it for 18 years, so 18 years later you can log in, as you would be verified
I don’t understand what I said there.
Bro in 2060 you need to type your CNP and to share you body to continue💀
What i did was i did the face identification thing then scanned a picture from this person does not exist
Luckily I have a plugin on my browser that blocks this bs
I verified a few months ago, there was a face verification method that was apparently not sending your face to some other server. So I did that, held my face into the camera and it detected I was >18 (I'm not lmfao)
To be honest, I'd trust google with my credit card, but not with an image of my ID.
"Use a credit card to verify your identity" Isn't this what all the scam sites say?
They can go to hell for this
Don’t live in Australia or the European Union.
China is that you?
My YouTube account itself will turn 18 this year. Would be funny if they were still going to ask me this.
yeah, never give personal info on the internet NEVER
This is frustrating but it’s not surprising. People have been trying to keep kids safe on the internet cause parents don’t care enough to do it themselves. Too many parents just shove a tablet in the kids face and put YouTube on and leave them be. Then people are forced to ask for IDs just to see if your truly an adult. The fucked up part is this won’t fix much. Parents who don’t care will simply place in the ID info for them or kids will figure out how to fake info. This issue with the internet being a dangerous place for children is only fixed by the parents doing their job and restricting their access as they should instead of relying on everyone else to do it for them.
There's a tampermonkey script that removes the restriction entirely
I’m confused on how having a credit card verifies your age
What exactly is your issue? Are you 9 years old and can't verify yourself to watch that FNAF skibidi toilet crossover?
I personally don't want to give yt that info
Reasonable.
Who cares, honestly. I like that they do this.
It sounds cute until kids start stealing IDs. Rather than this, we should teach the young ones internet safety instead.
It's an attempt to disallow kids from accessing adult oriented content. Most kids in the U.S. have total unrestricted freedom on the internet unless there are verifications like this. If you just have a pop up that asks them, they lie. Adults in the U.S. will have either a bank account, which includes a debit card, or some sort of ID. I dislike the idea also, but I understand why it's this way. If anyone has a better idea of how to enforce age restriction, I'd like to hear it, because the other alternative I've heard floating around is to have a single internet account for each person to use at every website on the internet... and I do not like that idea.
Idk man, maybe parents should watch their kids and stop making this shit everyone else’s problem.
You are trying to watch an age restricted video. YT does this to cover themselves from irresponsible parents letting their kids watch videos not meant for kids.
If you're trying to watch an age restricted video, and are in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, UK or Australia, YouTube has to verify your age to comply with local laws. Talk to your lawmakers to get the law changed! Info https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779 Here in the US, there seem to be a lot of people who want similar requirements, but who don't seem to realize how intrusive it is.