In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.
you’re right, the average person doesn’t care about their privacy.
and not only do they not care about their privacy, they resent being called stupid for not caring about their privacy. “you’re an idiot” seems to be most privacy advocates go-to argument as to why we should all care more about privacy, and it’s really not making a very good case.
ikr? some years ago, a classmate laughed at me for not wanting to give my credit card to Google to watch a YouTube video with age restriction.
he called me “conspiranoic”, “hysterical” and stuff, and i was just like “why do i have to give my credit card to watch a freaking video?”.
he was the typical “i don’t have anything to hide” guy. he said “it’s not a big deal, they already have lots of info about us, why do you care at this point lol”.
and i am ashamed i got influenced by them and days after, when that restriction appeared again for other videos i searched myself, i ended giving my credit card number.
and he was like making fun of it, like “see? i was right and you did it”.
damn, he was so annoying.
(sorry for this, pal. it was just to say that people gladly share their data to mega corporations, and press us to do the same by calling us conspiranoic).
ikr? some years ago, a classmate laughed at me for not wanting to give my credit card to Google to watch a YouTube video with age restriction.Wait YouTube age restriction need credit card info to unlock?
That, or a photo of your ID, or some other “proof”. Depends on country too probably.
Honestly I don’t think there’s any relevant data google would gain from that that they don’t already have unless you’re very meticulous about not letting them have any, so I didn’t really care.
And you can almost certainly blame “think of the children” type of legislation for that more than google trying to collect more data. Which is also what causes the country variation, it might not be needed at all in some places.
in my country, i was asked for my ID card, credit card or maybe (i don’t remember this one) driver’s license.
but they should already know i was not a minor, even if i lied on my age (which i didn’t), because of the type of content i visit via cookies is not for children, teenagers, etc., but not triggering neither, so i didn’t understand why to ask me that.
also, it wasn’t a video that needed age restriction at all, it had more sense if it was country restricted, but…
i think it was the algorhythm those weeks randomly flagging videos as age-restricted, or my account as suspicious or something.
Here in Germany I had to upload my ID card
I imagine how the check folks is related to local legislation.