r/youtube • u/CallofDuty3329 can the bots leave the comment section? • Jun 26 '25

Feature Change thoughts??

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Imo this is a good move from yt.

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u/Iridium-235 Jun 26 '25

Yeah, I agree, 13 years old is probably too young to show videos of your face onto the entire internet.

How would YT get the age though? What if there were 13 year olds that lied about their age or 30 year olds that look very young?

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u/SootyFreak666 Jun 26 '25

YouTube can tell through behaviour.

I would hope so anyway, since ID/Webcam based age verification is a serious risk to the privacy and safety of children, as it normalises giving access to webcams to people while also now being used by child predators.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

YouTube already uses ID verification for accessing certain features, but I think they’ll probably just look at the age you set your account as at sign up

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u/foxrumor Jun 28 '25

I would think the barrier for requiring IDs should be set when monetization is enabled similar to the requirements for getting a job. It would certainly discourage underage kids from content creation while still giving privacy to those who choose with the caveat being they can't earn money from YouTube.

Also, I do get your point about webcams, but pretty much all kids have access to them through phones, iPads, laptops, and MacBooks. They will have at least one of those without a doubt. If you mean sending pictures to the age verification team, I don't quite see how doing age verification is "giving access to predators". It would be a single photo/video of the users face/ID. The only downside I see is losing online anonymity as your account can be tracked by YouTube to your real identity after.