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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago (8 children)

old google accounts that have been regularly used for their entire existence are whitelisted by youtube's age assurance, because if the google account is beyond like...10 years old and has been getting continuous use the entire time then there's no way it belongs to a kid anymore

that's why I kind of regret deleting my older Gmail addresses, the one I use to watch youtube is still pretty old over 15 years. but I had one google account that would be 19 years old by now

[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wait, what is the age assurance thing? I thought just logging in was enough to make all age gates disappear, I didn't realize there was anything special about my account (other than it being tied to my personal email instead of a Gmail address).

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

a few months ago, youtube implemented AI-based age assurance where to prove you're an adult if the AI thought you were underage, you could either

dox yourself by uploading an ID that they absolutely WILL keep on file forever and will inevitably leak when they get hacked in the future
add a credit card to your account so they can trick you into paying for youtube premium when you accidentally click on something in the future or 3. if your account is old enough and has gotten continuous consistent use then they'll just go with that

The media is evil and didn't give the story any attention

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What the fuck, how is this the first time I'm hearing about this... I was thinking of deleting my account (with no phone or ID tied to it), I guess I'm keeping it for now.

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

What the fuck, how is this the first time I’m hearing about this…

Because the media is evil and none of that bullshit is about protecting kids, they just want us to dox ourselves so we're afraid to criticize anything

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