YouTube thinks I’ll buy a Rolex LMFAO
YouTube has started showing me ads for planning my own funeral 😞
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…
They’ll actually outright ban you if you’ve ever watched any DannyGo!
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.
so just turn off your youtube view and search history
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 certification training videos.
Watch videos about planning your retirement, listen to some classical music and the Beatles. Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
Found it!
They’re looking for people under 13 I assume.
In other words, I think that’s the diving line. So I don’t think 12 year olds are budgeting.
Makes sense, as all services I’ve encountered that mention age in regards to data collecting imply that it’s illegal to harvest those under 13. Mobile games and other services would not harvest data if you state your age as well below 13, but the increasingly vast majority just say “we will be harvesting you; by clicking this button or making an account you confirm that you are over 13 years of age…” Because, you know, real child protection laws are in effect.
Maybe some finance, home repair, defense economics.
I dunno, what are some categories of video no youth would ever watch?
news?
lol, many adults will get flagged as kids:
you keep clicking on YT Shots
watching Joe Rogan again? susWas 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
I watch a lot of Bluey…
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.
“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… 🤔
No… That cannot be true, considering how rich the company is, so no, your statement must be incorrect according to my analytics. /s
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.”
So watching a Australian man review mp3 players will mean what?
Millennial
Is that the green iPad man?
Yes, DankPods.
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.
