No. It’s false news. Just someone panicked looking for a cheap reason.
avatar@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Didn’t age verification - also recently implemented - cause youtube views to drop?
Here’s a case of it very well explained.
Gladaed@feddit.org 1 week ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 week ago
It was the first thing most people assumed was the culprit, as it silently enabled Restricted Mode, but since the biggest difference came from Computer views, despite the age verification happening on all platforms, that is strong evidence against that having any impact
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not to mention most didn’t see a corresponding drop in revenue from views.