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Watching Age-Restricted Videos

by lunchladydoris on 11/18/21, 9:15 AM with 24 comments

• by raxxorrax on 11/18/21, 9:30 AM

  Basically 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.

• by johnlorentzson on 11/18/21, 2:35 PM

  It'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).