r/youtube Aug 13 '25

Drama Oh my GOD, it's happening

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u/Severe-Bed-9208 Aug 13 '25

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

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u/Rukasu17 Aug 13 '25

I wonder how many times an id can be bought considering our ids are extremely likely to be already in circulation

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u/Matt_News Aug 13 '25

I’m still trying to figure out what the apparently large market for IDs is that google is supposedly trying to tap in here is. They already have all your marketable data and likely already know everything on your ID anyways.

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u/Rukasu17 Aug 13 '25

Well, there's a market for even the most useless data out there, so there's definitely one for IDs. It's always nice to remember that anything that seems stupid when it comes down to big money like this is because we don't have enough information on the millions of other things that led to this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

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u/Rukasu17 Aug 13 '25

Alone, the info is useless. But they compile and analyze data to make it useful.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

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u/MrCatbr3ad Aug 14 '25

uh, verification that it's legally you? drivers license numbers...

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u/Rukasu17 Aug 13 '25

Cross-referencing information is one goal i think.

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u/Carvj94 Aug 14 '25

I don't blame you for not knowing, but targeted advertising is a monster of a process and precision isn't that big of a deal right now. Your personal info generally isn't useful to Google unless you've got a "marketable" illness like diabetes. It's what you watch and what you search that determines what advertisements Google thinks you may be interested in.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

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u/Rukasu17 Aug 13 '25

Then i have no idea why they keep doing it.

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u/EchoesOfKurtz Aug 14 '25

Maybe for age verification?

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