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Invading the privacy of every adult who uses YouTube is a.. good idea?
It sounds like a terrible idea. You should talk to Google about it.
Did you know they make you have an account and then tie that account to literally everything else you've ever done?
Youtube may be the one place where age verification is actually practical with zero additional effort. They probably have a very good guess for every user on the platform from Google's account history alone, not to mention they probably have some payment method associated to a whole bunch of accounts already.
I approve of this if only for the dramatic irony of the whole thing.
You think people that use YouTube have privacy?
Privacy is a spectrum, there are ways to improve or worsen it on basically every website. The implementation of a system like this matters a lot; requiring the sites to collect and store IDs like they've been doing in the UK dramatically worsens user privacy with no upside.
Do you think YouTube/Google don't store all of your data, your IP address and follow you around the internet collecting more information?
I don't dispute that the UK are going about it all wrong, but in the spectrum of privacy that you speak of, I believe using Googles platforms comes with its own issues. It may even make people take notice and be more careful of what platforms they use.
Who they share with and how much they charge for that sharing matters.
"Invasion of Privacy" while talking about Google/YouTube. Riiiiight.
Just to be clear. I don't think kids should be on YouTube, let alone the Internet at large without proper parental supervision and when parental supervision isn't available they have 0 access to it. Full stop.
For a government that wants more control; yes.