/tech/ - Technology

I don't wanna and I want to pretend it does not exist.
<try to watch gameplay of a specific game
<you need an googler acc because muh violence and smoking
For what reasoning other than people refusing to do the very basic job of parenting that you need to baby everyone?

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>>16045
What's even funnier is that even like this children still have essentially unrestricted access to the internet unless their parents are on them 24/7, the solution would be to simply not give your kid an iPad before he's mature enough to know what to do and what not to do, but most people prefer to let technology do the parenting.

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>>16044 (OP) 
>Google using drivers license to verify accounts?
is this in general or only when the account is used for something like viewing "adult content" on YouTube?

>>16044 (OP) 
Sites are becoming increasingly fucking invasive into your privacy and feel entitled to gobbling up all the information they can get about you, yeah.

>>16044 (OP) 
Does this happen with people who already have accounts? What if they use a VPN?

>>16045
What game were you trying to watch?

>>16216
Yakuza.

>>16217
It's really blocked? Damn.

>>16217

Which video were you watching?

I fear this will be the excuse to finally ban google in my country because this is giant jurisdiction loophole nightmare.
And with local law, which forces this kind of personal data to be stored in local data centers, will make google an illegal entity
So if google hard pushes it everywhere, my government will have no choice but to ban google altogether

>>16219
What's your country? What do you think people will use after it gets banned?

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>>16044 (OP) 
i wonder why they need IDs to begin with, they already have phone numbers, IPs, e-mails, photos, addresses, contacts and search internet history, i mean; theres no lack of sensible or "verifiable" information google doesn't already have on their users, that goes for meta as well.

i see that perhaps google acting like some kinda of governmental body or institution might be where a lot of unawakened people draw the line, but on the other hand, i see a huge amount, if not most, people willing to send their personal documents and what not without a second thought, all in the name of convenience, of course if it becomes a thing.

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>>16342
The notion of Google age policing their tame YouTube catalog (I assume that's the use case) is retarded to begin with when they show children ads, propaganda, brainrot and Elsagate vids. Children can also go to any uncucked website to see some wild shit. YouTube could defer to a parental control browser/device API, but sensible open standards are not in their interest. But let's pretend for a second that it's Google job to enforce age restrictions instead of parents'.

Some department is tasked to solve age verification in a Google way, i.e. extract as much value from cattle as possible. If Google has enough data on the person (which for 99% they do) they can already tell the exact age or predict the range, but that doesn't bring new revenue. So someone comes up with a genius idea of inputting a credit card, which I assume is automatically linked to the Google account for instant spending later. But it would be a bit obvious to ask for a credit card for no reason whatsoever, so they add an illusion of options. Note how the credit card option is placed first and says immediately while the photo ID option says 3 days and is creepier as well. If a kid gets blocked, it will accept daddy's credit card so the kid can go on watching ads and paying app store gacha microtransactions. For the few users choosing the decoy ID option, that still gives Google some amount of information.

It also pushes the envelope on blatant total surveillance, gauge reactions of governments and users.

Enjoy your videos goyim :^)