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Recently I stumbled on a music video on YT, which was age restricted.

I was curious why would be that, so I logged in YT, since usually that was enough to confirm ones age. Specially since my YT account is more than 15 years old, with same gmail attached more than 14 years.

But now I got this weird proposal, that I should confirm my age by giving my credit card number. The other option was to give passport or whatever ID, and wait 3 days, for some banal music video by pretty popular band - no one sane would do that, so I was thinking, why google wants to get your bank accounts number.

Accidentally, few days later I got this mail, notice from Switzerland based company, about my subscription, they figured they cant renew it, bc of different bank card. So as you can see, because of original ID of purchase they have, they can get from the bank all the info about new bank cards.

Probably that is due to this Trade Agreements, like was ACTA, signed by many states in 2011 and later, so that some corporation can get from your bank all the data of your new bank cards, which should be private.

So I was thinking, if someone will give YT-google that credit card number, how would you know that there is not some hidden text saying, that they can have your bank account data permanently, or at least as long as you ever click on some YT video - which can't be avoided?

All this is far from innocent and banal. Specially if Google plans to launch its own Google-money in the future. I just hope you can get big picture here.

So I think it is important to know, specially bc of current state of US dollar, and all this recent EU legislation, by which we in EU, we had to get this "security" apps on our (mostly android!) phones, to confirm any transaction one is making via computer... so even if you refuse to have chrome browser, google will know all about that.

That's all, I'll appreciate any thoughts about this.

Recently I stumbled on a music video on YT, which was age restricted. I was curious why would be that, so I logged in YT, since usually that was enough to confirm ones age. Specially since my YT account is more than 15 years old, with same gmail attached more than 14 years. But now I got this weird proposal, that I should confirm my age by giving my credit card number. The other option was to give passport or whatever ID, and wait 3 days, for some banal music video by pretty popular band - no one sane would do that, so I was thinking, why google wants to get your bank accounts number. Accidentally, few days later I got this mail, notice from Switzerland based company, about my subscription, they figured they cant renew it, bc of different bank card. So as you can see, because of original ID of purchase they have, they can get from the bank all the info about new bank cards. Probably that is due to this Trade Agreements, like was ACTA, signed by many states in 2011 and later, so that some corporation can get from your bank all the data of your new bank cards, which should be private. So I was thinking, if someone will give YT-google that credit card number, how would you know that there is not some hidden text saying, that they can have your bank account data permanently, or at least as long as you ever click on some YT video - which can't be avoided? All this is far from innocent and banal. Specially if Google plans to launch its own Google-money in the future. I just hope you can get big picture here. So I think it is important to know, specially bc of current state of US dollar, and all this recent EU legislation, by which we in EU, we had to get this "security" apps on our (mostly android!) phones, to confirm any transaction one is making via computer... so even if you refuse to have chrome browser, google will know all about that. That's all, I'll appreciate any thoughts about this.

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[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Hate to break it to you but if you've had the same gmail account for 14 years they have a hell of a lot more data on you than you would want them to.

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well that gmail is for that channel only, so they can stick it to somewhere, but yes, I know they have all my data possible they can get... but I feel it is one thing, if they collect this data by their usual sneaky way, as also others do, like Microsoft, FB, Amazon, Twitter and such.. But if someone naive enough will give them that data by their own, they have it as long as you have any bank account, maybe. What if things get bad, you know, it happens.. if any war will broke between this evil shit and us, can they just block my bank account via some bogus reason in some distant future? I know this is sci-fi a bit, but its possible.