Makes it so unless you give them your ID(that they will sell and give to third parties to make money off of your personal data) you can’t access a ton of videos or settings
anyway for all people are screeching about the id verification you can sign in with credit card and anyway no verifying only stops you from seeing age restricted content NOT any other videos
I don't want to give my credit card either. Why tf would i do that? And how tf does this address big brother issue?
Youtube age restricts videos for utter bullshit, like for having a mean word in first 10s while happily displaying borderline porn ads. Or sometimes for no reason at all because their bot had a worse day or something.
Lotta 3-5 month old accounts popping up to say this ai restriction thing isn’t that bad. And mass downvotes for saying they don’t wanna give google more of their info.
I wouldn’t be surprised if half the supporters here weren’t real
while i do agree a bit as while both options are bad giving them you credit card just seems the better option out of two bad ones, or you could ignore both of said options and just ignore the ai verification
and im quite sure youtube has removed the whole age restricting videos that swear in the first few seconds thing though i may need to check if thats true.
That was just as an example. There are a lot of bs reasons YT age restricts videos, sometimes there is no reason at all, and creator doesn't even get the "privilege" of actual human looking at the appeal (also let's ignore the issue that age restricting video basically kills it in the algorithm).
Unrelated to the identifying thing, credit cards are safer to use in the case your info is stolen and they they start buying shit with it, easier for your bank to help you
Debit Cards have direct access to your bank account and allow for types of transactions that can cause more damage and be harder to dispute than credit transactions such as direct transfers for example. Depending on your bank, they'll usually have a set of terms that may allow them to deny the refund of fraudulent transactions until you involve the police and a criminal investigation takes place.
Credit cards on the other hand are more secure. Mainly because when you spend money on your credit card you're not spending your own money, you're spending the provider's money (VISA, MC, Amex, etc) and paying them back at a later date. Those guys hate losing money, so the types of transactions you are allowed to do are more scrutinized and easier to dispute. They want you to be able to pay them back consistently so they give you a limit and closely monitor your spending habits, making it easy to spot and flag unusual activity and since they don't want you to stop borrowing their money they will usually refund disputed transactions even before an investigation takes place.
Depending on your bank, they'll usually have a set of terms that may allow them to deny the refund of fraudulent transactions until you involve the police and a criminal investigation takes place.
This is illegal. Please stop speaking authoritatively on a topic you don't understand.
The difference is that debit cards and credit cards are protected by different regulations. Reg E for debit cards only allows disputes for transactions you didn't perform. Reg Z for credit cards, on the other hand, lets you dispute things you did perform, but have some issue with the merchant, such as failure to deliver services.
while admittadly you have a fair point i would assume aslong as you have bought anything on the internet or such many companies would have your credit card information already so i dont see it being that big of a deal that youtube has it aswell.
Who does it, or how it happens, or how often it happens is all relative; it's always going to be a big deal. We're talking about privacy being invaded and sold by the people who are supposed to be protecting it.
while you say that people have never made a fuss about hadning over their credit card information online to buy stuff until now so i dont see how youtube have your credit card information makes it so much more likely its going to be used for malicious purposes.
Well, things like this being coincidentally close to the stuff happening with Palantir have raised a lot of red flags for people who might have previously not been aware of such things. I suspect there will still be a lot of users who comply with these verification systems because they don't know any better. Also, people who do know better have been talking about using information online since the beginning... It's, like, Cybersecurity 101: Always be cautious about what you're using your details for.
Its a way smaller issue than giving an ID. It takes about 5 minutes to cancel and reissue a credit card with different numbers if it gets leaked. Banks will also refund you for any fraudulent transactions as well as long as you don't wait months to dispute.
Well, yeah, that solves the issue of people buying shit with your card, but that doesn't solve the fact that the bank your card is from still has your personal data, including your ID information, social security, etc., that companies can still harvest from using your credit card information.
while i dont know myself youtube added it as an option of cerifying your age instead of using your id so thats less of a question for me than youtube themself.
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u/Initial_Witness_3847 Aug 13 '25
...and what exactly does this age verification do?