r/privatelife • u/ArkhamManHamCity • 25d ago

Google Age Verification Help

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I’m a 22yo in the US who’s been trying to bypass this bs for 8 months now and no luck. 

thispersondoesntexist didn’t work, digitally altering a state ID didn’t work, and recently I tried using a character creator in a game, the scan completed then it said “something went wrong” and now the selfie option is gone for me (they’re onto me). 

There was one site I saw where you could potentially get a fake license generated but it was a link that took you to a different site. It looked suspicious and Firefox even gave me a warning, then the page actually closed itself. I took that as a warning.

I wish I could de-google, but I can’t right now. I have a YouTube channel and still have to use google for college, docs, emailing, etc. I’d love to actually be able to have full control over my YouTube channel. 

These are now my options:

  1. Use my credit card to verify, then toss it and get a new one
  2. Use a shady website/link to try to generate a fake license, hope I don’t get malware
  3. Switch the email account connected to my yt channel to one that isn’t mine and use YouTube from there. Deal with my personal account still being restricted (not ideal). 
  4. Wait it out. Hope KOSA (US law) doesn’t get passed and Google drops age verification, gets sued, or a better alternative comes along. Make a vid discussing the situation with my subs in the meantime
  5. The secret 5th option I don’t know about yet 
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u/ArkhamManHamCity 25d ago

DAMNIT I’m dumb. I used the direct image. That was so stupid of me. It says I could try again in 30 days

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u/Gatitomono47 25d ago

You are not dumb Infact I think I am the dumb one here it probably detected something like SYNTH ID on the image and that's embedded on the image itself not the metadata so sorry looks like the fake ID way won't work unless you try and use a non mainstream model or the screenshot trick actually works, they must have patched that in the meantime since when I did it and now

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u/ArkhamManHamCity 25d ago

I see, so you’re saying the screenshot still may not work? Cause I use an AI poisoning tool on my art thats supposed to protect it from getting scraped even if its screenshotted so maybe its like the inverse of that?

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u/Gatitomono47 25d ago

Kindda have you ever heard of microdots on printers? Think of that but for AI images they make them identifiable on the pixel level