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Izz anyone having trouble viewing or being view on cam ? I keep getting (and other ppl too) this message that says your unable to use the yahoo cam thingy. but it seems random or something please send me mail with your advice
Mike
Could you tell us more info please? What version of Yahoo and what cam what OS etc. Oh and please write the exact error message you are receiving. Thanks and we’ll try to help better.
Some people don’t believe me, but what I am going to say now is right.
“Sorry, you are unable to use the webcam service”
What does this mean?
It means you are under 18.
Let me explain, when Yahoo! cams first came out I used to be, like now, in the Yahoo! Chat Help rooms. It was the case, that you must be over 18 to view just anybodies cam. If you are under 18, and over 13, you may only do cam chats where both you and the recipient are on each others buddy lists. This is for child protection. They don’t want under 18s being told by a stranger they have something cute on cam, then they see something disgusting. If you are on each others buddy lists, it is presumed you know each other, and what you are doing on cam is safe.
If you are under 13, you shouldn’t even be using Yahoo! Chat.
At the time cams came out, I myself was only 16/17 and was getting this error when I was trying to test out peoples cams for problems, if I used 3rd party software however I was safe. I believe Yahoo! Messenger tells the cam server your age, I have seen this in the packets given to Yahoo! on login.A certain website which claims many visitors and many contacts within Yahoo!, has decided this is a NEW error message, and that Yahoo! have just started this blocking. It’s been like this since the beginning of cam, I remember the huge numbers of teens asking why they got this message when cams first came out. The Yahoo! help page being offered has always been there,
All I can think for the reason this is suddenly becoming an issue again, is because Yahoo! have glitched over the last X months and let just anyone use cam. If you are over 18, perhaps Yahoo! is calculating your age wrong. Either that or they changed the system, rather than them calling up your records off file, they instead let yahoo! messenger do the age stuff as I said above.
Your age is calculated from your date of birth, not profile age, and before you ask, NO you cannot change your date of birth, this is an attribute of a person that does not change.
The Yahoo! help page also lists another possible reason for this error, if you are sure your age on your account is over 18, make sure you connect using no proxies, although in my experience, this has never been the problem, has always been the age.
I had that before, I dont know why i received that message from Yahoo, I am over 18 and in muh profile it is listed as being over 18…only happened a few times though in one night. It seems like yahoo has some issues with their chat client eh?
Looks like last week there was an issue with Yahoo! calculating the ages incorrectly, or the cam server rejecting connections.
The date that applies is on your account, not profile. Some people lie when they sign up, and when it comes to things like adult rooms and cams, they learn to pay attention next time;) otherwise they appear as 14 and get none of them.
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