Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
by laurent92 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:12PM
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In 2010, Google required your ID card if you enter a false birth date, and you are locked out of your account in the meantime. Happened to a colleague of mine because we were using Google Apps for Business. Because he didn’t want to give his real info to Google at work, he couldn’t work for 2 days and had to give Google his ID.
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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
by jobigoud on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:20PM
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> In 2010, Google required your ID card if you enter a false birth date
How do they know it's false? And if they know it's false why do they ask for it, they already have the right one.
Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
by gknoy on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:48PM
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> if they know it's false why do they ask for it, they already have the right one
Great question. It seems like it's being used as authentication, rather than authorization, in that it's meant to prove that you are who you say you are.