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OK, you are right, this is governance done wrong.
Not sure about in the EU, but here in the US I cannot create a google account without providing a telephone number "for security."
That's certainly different (not more arduous, but more privacy invading) from when I created other Google accounts some years back.
In fact, I just tried again and was asked to "verify my phone number."
Perhaps you created such an account with your phone?
In which case, Google already has that information.
But yeah, the real problem is that we got age filter no. 4523.
There are alternative ways, but this should work for anyone currently affected:
https://githubmemory.com/repo/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age...
I think this implementation of the EU AVMSD forces users private data to be more likely to be exposed.
You can disable Google's activity history, which includes YouTube videos watched. That should prevent personalised recommendations: https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy
I disabled everything and can confirm that I only get garbage recommendations about things I've never watched or searched for.
In which case, sure it might work for now, but at any point Google can decide to just lock you out of all of them.
No.
I don't see anything regarding multiple accounts.
Who cares if it is