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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
So watching a Australian man review mp3 players will mean what?
Millennial
Is that the green iPad man?
Yes, DankPods.
Probably possible to have something like a Selenium or whatever the kids use to automate Web browsers these days Python script that automatically builds a credible viewing history that looks like an adult's.
Honestly if they can verify that i'm an adult based on what i watch and stop blocking videos because they might not be appropriate for a kid like mf i ain't no kid.
Googles knows a LOT more about you than what you watch on YouTube.
Yea and they will know a lot more soon since i will buy the samsung project moohan VR headset that runs android XR. Google will become my eyes with the passthrough and they advertise the headset for AI use that can see everything i see... i'm not sure if i will turn that off right away or try to use it for some stuff. Right now i'm using a meta quest pro to work and do a lot of daily stuff so it's a question of meta or google for me and i decided to get out of meta's not so great VR hardware.
There are problems with this. Firstly, people might let their kids watch videos on their "adult" accounts. YouTube's detection would have to be incredibly fine-grained and be able to flip-flop depending on what's being watched.
The second one is a "damned either way" kind of deal: Consider the deletion of watch history; Should it forget you're an adult if you do that? If yes, then you have to go through a different process or watch a load of videos that are not blocked but still sufficiently adult to get your account reidentified. If not, they're storing metadata that you implicitly requested the deletion of.
I have reason to believe that they do keep such metadata and that they may have been taking steps to hide that fact. A permanent "user is an adult" flag would blow that wide open. As such, I reckon this will be the first, "forget" option. And users will have to suck it until the algorithm works out the user is an adult again (or else never delete their watch history; something that would suit YouTube's advertising algorithm just fine).
I know for a fact that the algorithm retains data about your viewing preferences even after deleting watch history. After deleting mine it would still occasionally recommend something I've seen before and can pretty easily corral me back into whatever direction I had previously gone in. After having done this many times the videos became more random, so I think it keeps a few data points to "jump start" your viewing experience but they gradually change. If you reset your history and view as many random new videos as you can, rinse and repeat, they eventually use those those as starting points.
Heh. That's also my "reason to believe", but I was trying to get an unruly comment under control and trimmed that part.
Namely, I once took an account right back to no watch history and no likes - either that was a feature at some point or I did it manually - and still got suspiciously familiar suggestions.
interestingly, when i delete the my history, after watching one video yt repopulates the recommendations almost exactly as it were a few minutes ago. it isn't even trying
And give up on making you explicitly hand over your identity... Sir/Ma'am/Other I believe you have misjudged the ever beneficent Google. This will simply be to augment the other fingerprinting methods they already use regardless of what they might say.
Hopefully my frequent playing of 90s music playlists works out!
I play a game from 1999, I guess I'm safe
Maybe, maybe not. I recently watched a mini-documentary featuring N64 Tetris tournaments at CTWC (The First Perfect Game of Tetris Just Happened) - this story is of a professional Tetris player who "beat" the game in 2023, aged 13.
I can’t tell if this is worse for bronies or MLP loving children.
Either way, I expect something newsworthy to come from this.
Judging by the comments here I'm getting the impression that people would like to rather provide a selfie or ID.
