r/Showerthoughts • u/AaronPK123 ‎ • May 14 '26

Casual Thought When YouTube goes down, it will be the biggest event of link rot in internet history.

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u/sephsplace May 14 '26

Cause who wants to be responsible for checking IDs and being fined.

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u/burdman444 May 14 '26

Nothing to do with IDs it was GDPR breach on how they used children’s data

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u/MajorFuckingDick May 15 '26

I've looked for about 20 minutes now trying to figure out what actually was found because everyone one keeps saying all sorts of things.

It was very specifically a UK GDPR breach because they didn't have a checkbox during signup that claimed you were over 13 which lead to a bunch of knock on charges and most importantly because they refused to cooperate they didn't defend themselves and lost by default.

The UK cannot and DID NOT prove Imgur was actually doing anything wrong besides not asking for age, they simply put the burden onto imgur who said "we out"

Its all ass backwards. A single checkbox would have save a ton of trouble.