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YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult
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YouTube has started showing me ads for planning my own funeral π
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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Well that's gonna be interesting since the TV runs on my account but 99.9% of the time it's my kids watching...
They'll actually outright ban you if you've ever watched any DannyGo!
As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven't watched a video there in over a year.
Why does YouTube need to know how old I am, explicit content isn't allowed on the platform so the age of the viewer isn't something they need to know.
Because they need to know who to target ads for gutter cleaning systems and fat man t-shirts.
so just turn off your youtube view and search history
There's a small part of me that has kind of wished that this kind of pseudo age verification was a thing for a while (even though there's a much bigger part that doesn't want any corporation to know a damn thing about me.)
I remember swinging through Walmart once to pick up a couple things.
My cart had, IIRC, some deodorant (old spice classic,) masking tape, a can of spray paint, some plumbing parts, a few fishing lures, socks, and a couple of snacks.
I had one of those "I've become my dad" moments looking at my cart. I feel like that shopping list is practically a distillation of every suburban dad who's ever existed.
But of course, I rang up the spray paint, and an employee had to come over to confirm that I was in fact some boring suburban white dude and not a teenager who was going to use it for mischief or huff it to get high.
Maybe I'm giving the juvenile delinquents of today too little credit, or maybe my fellow grown-ups too much, but I feel like the venn diagram of people buying fishing lures, a new toilet flapper, and socks, has basically no overlap with vandals and paint-sniffers.
So I kind of felt like maybe the almighty algorithm could have picked up on that and let me skip having the underpaid giving me a quick looking-at before punching his code into the self-checkout.
I like how people are proud of having 20 yo viewing history on YT. Send your browsing history to Google as well, see how impressed they are.
My YouTube account is old enough to be an adult.
Mine is literally older than YouTube.
Will start?
I'm pretty certain that they're already guessing as much about you as possible for targeted ads.
I watched a video today on my work computer for the first time, where I donβt have the ability to block the ads. Dear god. The litany of overhyped, lie-based AI dreck was traumatizing.
I watched a single motorcycle video on computer logged out of YouTube. All the related videos were rage bait right wing content. None related to motorcycles.
All part of the right-wing propaganda machine.
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I watch a lot of Bluey...
Finally, I can just watch 50 hours of N64 emulation nerd shit to gain access to the softcore porn I also wanted to watch, after this next N64 video
Kaze is a god
So I just have to gain a brain rot addiction to regain my youth? When asked how this twelve year old managed to create a YouTube account 20 years ago, YouTube replied, "he's very clever."
My viewing history can legally drink in US in a year. What do you mean βguessβ?
Are you sure you are not three kids in a trench coat?
I just got off work at the business factory. I did three businesses today!
Vincent? Vincent Adultman? I haven't seen you since business college when we took company 101 together with Professor Realguy!
How have you been?
"will start"
Ya know, I'm starting to think Google uses our data for doing more than providing the service that we sign up for.. π€
I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services 'for free', but is one of the world's biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?
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No... That cannot be true, considering how rich the company is, so no, your statement must be incorrect according to my analytics. /s
So, if you're a child, watch some videos about budgeting, maybe a few cooking videos?
I dunno, what are some categories of video no youth would ever watch?
How to season your cast iron pan.
Vanlife videos, cooking shows, and politics should make YouTube believe you're an adult. But hell I subscribe to gaming channels, with watching gamers play games. Will that get me labeled a child.
It's interesting that you mention the gaming thing, I've realised recently that I'm still watching the same folks I was 10 years ago, so it's really content by millennials for millennials - not a child thing like I'm used to assuming. It does come in part because if I mention YouTube to a younger person I get a blank look when I say who I watch.
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I think you got it backwards. What are some categories an adult would never watch? Fucking Dora the Explorer and Blues Clues and the like. Although it's very likely they just play it from their account for their kids.
I regularly watch kids shows in Korean. Not because I'm a Korean baby, but because it's a lower level vocabulary to learn the language
Hmm seems suspicious.
Can you prove you're not a Korean baby?
How do you do fellow adult westerners
UK age filter be like:
Access granted.
You do realize that there are a ton of adult fans for kids shows and games right? How quickly the bronies are forgotten with everything happening in the world.
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IT certification training videos.
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lol, many adults will get flagged as kids:
you keep clicking on YT Shots
watching Joe Rogan again? sus
Me watching PokΓ©mon episodes in YT
Was gonna say.. my kids keep accidentally using my profile to watch their videos. YouTube is going to think I'm a teen/child with peak gen alpha brain rot.
Ben Shapiro fans in shambles
Viewing mostly adult videos? Flagged as a kid exploring sexuality.
Viewing mostly videos with kids? Flagged as an adult with paedo tendencies.
This will probably not work.
Good fuckin luck, I'm still getting Spanish ads for womans deodorant. If they can't figure out my sex and language age might be a bit rough for em
Spanish ads for womans deodorant.
Google's data-mining software knew pretty well who 1D10 was. It had simply concluded, based on its extensive database spanning vast numbers of users around the world, that he would look magnificent in a flamenco dress.
Ok so it's sometimes right.
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