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My YouTube account is old enough to be an adult.
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Submitted 1 month ago by CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Lexam@lemmy.world 1 month ago
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mine is literally older than YouTube.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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?
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
atomp@piefed.zip 1 month ago
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.
artyom@piefed.social 1 month ago
I think you got it backwards. What are some categories an adult would never watch? Fucking Does the Explorer and Blues Clues and the like. Although it's very likely they just play it from their account for their kids.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
How to season your cast iron pan.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
IT certification training videos.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Watch videos about planning your retirement, listen to some classical music and the Beatles. Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
Found it!
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Recorded really early 20th century movies or acts.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Disney before Frozen came out.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Listen to some classical music
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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 you confirm that you are over 13 years of age…”
merde@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
news?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
some scifi shows in the early 2000s.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe some finance, home repair, defense economics.
Slotos@feddit.nl 1 month ago
My viewing history can legally drink in US in a year. What do you mean „guess”?
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you sure you are not three kids in a trench coat?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I just got off work at the business factory. I did three businesses today!
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
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.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Because they need to know who to target ads for gutter cleaning systems and fat man t-shirts.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh right yt has ads. I keep forgetting.
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lol, many adults will get flagged as kids: you keep clicking on TY Shots
watching Joe Rogan again? susThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[deleted]Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
either him or charlie kirk.
jjfolken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Me watching Pokémon episodes in YT
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
My account is old enough to buy beer. The fuck do you think, YouTube?
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 month ago
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
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Kaze is a god
TopsickPilgrim@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YouTube has started showing me ads for planning my own funeral 😞
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I get ads to become a nuclear engineer and work on a military submarine 😂
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Aww, YouTube thinks you’re smart! And short.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s always a good time. Wirh these things you never know.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YouTube thinks I’ll buy a Rolex LMFAO
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Well that’s gonna be interesting since the TV runs on my account but 99.9% of the time it’s my kids watching…
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’ll actually outright ban you if you’ve ever watched any DannyGo!
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
so just turn off your youtube view and search history
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 month ago
Hopefully Google doesn’t bypass that anyways.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“will start”
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ya know, I’m starting to think Google uses our data for doing more than providing the service that we sign up for… 🤔
medem@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
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 ?
P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No… That cannot be true, considering how rich the company is, so no, your statement must be incorrect according to my analytics. /s
omniman@piefed.zip 1 month ago
they are collecting data points and creating a brain for ai to live in
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
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.”
hopesdead@startrek.website 1 month ago
So watching a Australian man review mp3 players will mean what?
iopq@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Millennial
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Is that the green iPad man?
hopesdead@startrek.website 1 month ago
Yes, DankPods.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven’t watched a video there in over a year.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 month ago
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.
rbos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I watch a lot of Bluey…
1D10@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Spanish ads for womans deodorant.
Google’s data-mining analytics 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 flamenca dress.
1D10@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ok so it’s sometimes right.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
rimu@piefed.social 1 month ago
Googles knows a LOT more about you than what you watch on YouTube.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
shads@lemy.lol 1 month ago
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.
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
iopq@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I play a game from 1999, I guess I’m safe
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Maybe, maybe not. I recently watched a mini-documentary (The First Perfect Game of Tetris Just Happened) - this story is of a professional Tetris player who “beat” the game in 2023, aged 13.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hopefully my frequent playing of 90s music playlists works out!
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s obvious they are going to use it to stop allowing access without a login or disabling history tracking
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I can’t ten of this is worse for bronies or MLP loving children.
Either way, I expect something newsworthy to come from this.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Judging by the comments here I’m getting the impression that people would like to rather provide a selfie or ID.
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Can’t we just stick to pinky swearing that I’m an adult?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
Will start?
I’m pretty certain that they’re already guessing as much about you as possible for targeted ads.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
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