YouTube will start to demand ID / credit cards information from European users

https://www.neowin.net/news/youtube-will-launch-a-new-age-verification-requirement-for-some-european-users/

by Elons_baby • 6 years ago

42 18 6 years ago

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Woodi• 6 years ago

if required then BYE!

Elons_baby• 6 years ago

true story

eesmith3• 6 years ago

And you'll go where to watch the age restricted videos you now watch on YouTube?

emsy• 6 years ago

Don't watch them at all.

capableweb• 6 years ago

nsfwyoutube works around that restriction.

Personally, if YouTube asks me for ID, I'll leave the platform too, pulling down all favorites videos before and rehosting them somewhere else instead.

hggh• 6 years ago

mpv bypasses age restriction (via youtube-dl)

retox• 6 years ago

Replace 'you' with 'hook' in the url.

eznzt• 6 years ago

It's not youtube's fault, it's the EU's. I was going to say "remember this the next time you vote", but it's not like us EU citizens are really given a choice.

haunter• 6 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jm37a1/youtube_wil...

LinuxBender• 6 years ago

Will this be imposed upon other regions as well?

disown• 6 years ago

Only if other regions/nations require it. Youtube is doing this to comply with EU directive as stated in the article.

Yliaho• 6 years ago

So YouTube does this to comply with EUs new directive? Isn’t this beyond Google then, and we’re starting to see similar methods for user verification on other video-on-demand platforms?

What’s up with these horribly out-of-touch privacy/license EU directives...

senkora• 6 years ago

For content owners who feel their videos were erroneously restricted, YouTube will let them appeal the decision.

I’m sure that this process will have no problems whatsoever.

Doxin• 6 years ago

So this seems to be in response to article 27 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive[1]

Of note is that the law does not mention ID cards or credit cards. That just happens to be the route youtube chose to go.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

YouTube will start to demand ID / credit cards information from European users

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