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It's obvious they are going to use it to stop allowing access without a login or disabling history tracking
My account is old enough to buy beer. The fuck do you think, YouTube?
YouTube thinks I'll buy a Rolex LMFAO
YouTube has started showing me ads for planning my own funeral 😞
I get ads to become a nuclear engineer and work on a military submarine 😂
It’s always a good time. Wirh these things you never know.
Well that's gonna be interesting since the TV runs on my account but 99.9% of the time it's my kids watching...
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.
Oh right yt has ads. I keep forgetting.
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 don’t 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.
so just turn off your youtube view and search history
Hopefully Google doesn't bypass that and record your history to guess your age regardless.
In fact, Google probably still records your view and search history even if you turn those off, and turning off view and search history probably just blocks it from getting added to the recommendation algorithm.
Basically, the best course of action, while it still is a course of action, is to just watch YT either on one of the few Invidious instances left standing, or on Grayjay, but still, purge your search and view history and disable it moving forward for added peace of mind if anything.
Better yet would be to straight-up log out of YT on your browser and only watch YT in Invidious or logged in on Grayjay moving forward.
As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven't watched a video there in over a year.
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.
My viewing history can legally drink in US in a year. What do you mean „guess”?
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!
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
lol, many adults will get flagged as kids:
you keep clicking on YT Shots
watching Joe Rogan again? sus
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.
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.
I watch a lot of Bluey...
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."
"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.. 🤔
they are collecting data points and creating a brain for ai to live in
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 ?
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.
