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I'm asking because I just had to verify my age thanks to YouTube requiring me to watch a video that was age restricted.

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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

I haven't age verified anything and I don't plan to. It's only normal when you normalize it. If something will no longer allow me access without verifying my age, I will either find a way around it or I will no longer use that thing. If Youtube is not going to let me watch age restricted videos, so what? I will not watch age restricted videos on Youtube. I will instead use an addon to find them on odysee or peertube instead if possible, or I'll just live my life accepting that video probably wasn't one I really needed that contained the only key to living a happy life. It's not that important, certainly not important enough to verify my age to the surveillance police.

If they try to make me age verify my home internet connection, well then I'm gonna have to get real creative, sure, but rest assured I will (with the help of the rest of the privacy-oriented community) find ways to obfuscate the fuck out of all traffic in and out of my network so thoroughly it won't even matter if they know who owns my internet connection because it won't even be relevant anymore. VPN everything. Become an open relay. Join the I2P project. Embrace mesh networking. Fuck them, they can't stop us all.