This is governance done wrong. Severely wrong. Your 12 year olds will find a way to content, probably on sites that are "worse" than Youtube. For Europeans everything on Youtube is now Youtube Kids.
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OK, you are right, this is governance done wrong.
Not sure about in the EU, but here in the US I cannot create a google account without providing a telephone number "for security."
That's certainly different (not more arduous, but more privacy invading) from when I created other Google accounts some years back.
But yeah, the real problem is that we got age filter no. 4523.
There are alternative ways, but this should work for anyone currently affected:
https://githubmemory.com/repo/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age...
I think this implementation of the EU AVMSD forces users private data to be more likely to be exposed.
In which case, sure it might work for now, but at any point Google can decide to just lock you out of all of them.
I was going to post a link to a song based on the "All your base are belong to us" meme on another site, but it was, for some unknown reason, age-restricted.
When I see the age gate asking me to log in, I close the tab. How will the EU stop me from doing that?
