Credit card is the best of the options. There are all sorts of strict rules and restrictions about how companies store and use credit card information. Those rules don’t exist for the other options.
Compromise is always the game.
You either comprise by not using YouTube anymore, or you compromise by giving them the most tightly restricted information they’ll accept.
You’ll never have perfect privacy. I guarentee Google already has a supressing amount of info on you. At least this is officially protected. Once you give the card as proof, you can probably delete it from their saved data. And they have to honor that, both by law and contracts with Visa etc.
You’re literally in Gestapo times and talking about “compromising” sensitive personal information, like they wouldn’t be able to track you down in an instant with a few breadcrumbs.
Well yah. I mentioned not using YouTube anymore. That’s a viable option.
So is moving to the wilderness somewhere, and living off the grid.
Or to a poor country where it’s isn’t financially worthwhile to for companies to track everyone.
That’s full identity verification giving them a credit card. They may be required to delete the card, but they aren’t going to be required to delete a record that says we confirmed the identity of this account with a credit card on this date. If you don’t want your name and social security number tied to your google account don’t give them your credit card.
Frankly though, we all know google is the worst of the worst for privacy. Bypassing the age verification will only by OP time.
That’s one of the restrictions. If they try to do that, you just call Visa and cancel the charge. Then Visa will fight with Google to get their money back.
Credit card is the best of the options. There are all sorts of strict rules and restrictions about how companies store and use credit card information. Those rules don’t exist for the other options.
I don’t want to give any of my info to Google though
Compromise is always the game.
You either comprise by not using YouTube anymore, or you compromise by giving them the most tightly restricted information they’ll accept.
You’ll never have perfect privacy. I guarentee Google already has a supressing amount of info on you. At least this is officially protected. Once you give the card as proof, you can probably delete it from their saved data. And they have to honor that, both by law and contracts with Visa etc.
Do not listen to this guy.
You’re literally in Gestapo times and talking about “compromising” sensitive personal information, like they wouldn’t be able to track you down in an instant with a few breadcrumbs.
Well yah. I mentioned not using YouTube anymore. That’s a viable option.
So is moving to the wilderness somewhere, and living off the grid.
Or to a poor country where it’s isn’t financially worthwhile to for companies to track everyone.
That’s full identity verification giving them a credit card. They may be required to delete the card, but they aren’t going to be required to delete a record that says we confirmed the identity of this account with a credit card on this date. If you don’t want your name and social security number tied to your google account don’t give them your credit card.
Frankly though, we all know google is the worst of the worst for privacy. Bypassing the age verification will only by OP time.
You’re right but people don’t want to acknowledge it.
I’m waiting for the change in T&Cs to basically say “If you don’t watch enough ads, you will be auto subscribed to YT premium using the ccard on file”
That’s one of the restrictions. If they try to do that, you just call Visa and cancel the charge. Then Visa will fight with Google to get their money back.
I wonder if a temporary credit card will work maybe?
That’s an idea. It might. I don’t know