My account is old enough to buy beer. The fuck do you think, YouTube?
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.
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 😂
Aww, YouTube thinks you're smart! And short.
It’s always a good time. Wirh these things you never know.
YouTube thinks I'll buy a Rolex LMFAO
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
Well that's gonna be interesting since the TV runs on my account but 99.9% of the time it's my kids watching...
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!
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.
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
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.
It's obvious they are going to use it to stop allowing access without a login or disabling history tracking
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.
As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven't watched a video there in over a year.
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"
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.
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.
So watching a Australian man review mp3 players will mean what?
Millennial
I watch a lot of Bluey...
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.
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.
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.
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