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I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

in my country, i was asked for my ID card, credit card or maybe (i don't remember this one) driver's license.

i think it was the algorhythm those weeks randomly flagging videos as age-restricted, or my account as suspicious or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting, from where i from i just need to have google account and hit continue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here in Germany I had to upload my ID card

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I imagine how the check folks is related to local legislation.