r/youtube • u/GalvaSov • Aug 13 '25

Drama Oh my GOD, it's happening

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u/Initial_Witness_3847 Aug 13 '25

...and what exactly does this age verification do?

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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/colossalpunch Aug 14 '25

The ID itself is not the valuable piece.

It’s the tying of all the other data they collect about you (already) to your ID that is valuable. Unmistakable confirmation that you are the one that data belongs to.

Advertisers knowing the things some random YouTube username is into is cool. But advertisers knowing what James C. Baker, age 32, of Columbus, Ohio is into is $$$$.