YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify the age in EU (2020)
Serious the world is slowly becoming a nightmare for those of us who travel, roadblocks EVERYWHERE.<p>When I was in Poland, I couldn&#x27;t use a rental bike because you have to have a Google Account tied to the Polish Playstore to be able to install the app. For this exact reason I couldn&#x27;t collect Starbucks points or pay conveniently while in Mexico for 6 months. Google and Apple expect you to buy 1 phone per country. This comes up again and again and again.<p>In South Korea, I couldn&#x27;t even watch my own YouTube playlists. Some Chinese music videos I watch were age restricted and you have to become a long term legal resident to be able to verify. Oh, and they might not sell size 46 shoes commonly there either but I sure couldn&#x27;t order them. You need the same ID just to be able to receive a package Fedex&#x27;d from overseas.<p>And on and on and on... Currently in Ukraine, at least 2 of my banks block me from any access to my finances both my phone app and any web access. A favorite travel news website I read also blocks access.<p>Multiple Texas government agencies actually block any overseas access, preventing my from cancelling my highway toll pass or paying the bill. I think I had trouble accessing some tax sites too. God forbid anyone ever go on vacation. You have a WWW site? You mean CWW, right?<p>There are a whole list of other problems worldwide, I wish I&#x27;d written them all down. Amazon is 100% nationalistic anti- the existence of other countries. All I can say is god bless Netflix, they&#x27;re the most reasonable of any company or government by a wide wide margin. I see no need to play with VPNs for Netflix.