/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 :^)

>>16347
States are also passing laws to force companies to do more age verification, I don't doubt Google will exploit it but they are being forced into it.

>>16342
in some countries you can still buy phone number without passport. and rest of things they have are worthless for identification

>>16044 (OP) 
They want your private information really fucking badly. It's disgusting, but that's what happens when you deal with these social media companies that are all about Big Data and shit. Don't fucking give it to them.

There are still e-mail providers that don't do that bullshit and that's all you really need.

>>16605
>There are still e-mail providers that don't do that bullshit and that's all you really need.
Don't work with github for example. Github only allows approved email providers. I'm not sure why Microsoft is even legally allowed to do that.

>>16607
I used to make github accounts with proton email, does it not work anymore?

>>16611
pretty sure i made my github with proton mail since i am anticipating google ban in my country, especially if op news continue. what concerns me about google is not the ban, but rather that google itself can fuck you over if you dare to use vpn on it, i had moments where it almost locked me out of my own account. it's best to move elsewhere. meanwhile proton even has onion, but treats proxies as normal from my experience. the only bad thing about proton is that you supposed to know to wait a week or two when creating account, or system thinks you're bot and locks your account too

>>16607
Shithub is for being a free employee for Microsoft. It's not open source when it requires an account.

>>16222
Quit shilling for jewgle

>>16621
Did you not get the memo yet? Microsoft OWNS Github. Github is part of Microsoft. MS acquired it in 2018.

>>16044 (OP) 
I have a single Google account to receive job postings and I never bother to use it for anything other than that. If YouTube flagged something as nsfw, I just don't bother to watch it.

>>16065
I would say it's less to do with sites and retarded parents and government overreach. Especially after propoganda slop like adolescence, they're just being safe than sorry.

>>16221
where exactly are you from?
Also, what alrernatives are you thinking of?

>>16347
what is this PRISM you are speaking of?

>>16044 (OP) 
>he wants a google account
Can we just admit that people wanting a botnet account on a botted platform with endless and constant censorshit is the problem? Because it's actually the problem. This idea that the entire internet is just google youtube facebook is such a new normalnigger golem concept and its incredible we went from typing urls to whatever the fuck dystopian monster this is.

Its very concerning how uncaring people are spreading their info around to "verify" whatever bullshit from these nose men technocrats. Ive seen people that really know better just upload their id to watch age restricted slop while coping about it. Letting them data mine you is participating in the humiliation ritual. It's also dangerous. Not just to the golem that obeys but to others that don't.