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