YouTube thinks I’ll buy a Rolex LMFAO
Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult
Submitted 1 day ago by CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-age-checks-3582141
Comments
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day 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 day 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.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 23 hours 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 day ago
Lexam@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My YouTube account is old enough to be an adult.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mine is literally older than YouTube.
TopsickPilgrim@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
YouTube has started showing me ads for planning my own funeral 😞
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s always a good time. Wirh these things you never know.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 12 hours 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 12 hours ago
They’ll actually outright ban you if you’ve ever watched any DannyGo!
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day 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 23 hours ago
Because they need to know who to target ads for gutter cleaning systems and fat man t-shirts.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Oh right yt has ads. I keep forgetting.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 day 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 day 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.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
How to season your cast iron pan.
artyom@piefed.social 1 day 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 day 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 day 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.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
IT certification training videos.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day ago
Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
Found it!
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Recorded really early 20th century movies or acts.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Disney before Frozen came out.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Listen to some classical music
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day 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 day ago
news?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
some scifi shows in the early 2000s.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe some finance, home repair, defense economics.
Slotos@feddit.nl 1 day ago
My viewing history can legally drink in US in a year. What do you mean „guess”?
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are you sure you are not three kids in a trench coat?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just got off work at the business factory. I did three businesses today!
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 day ago
lol, many adults will get flagged as kids: you keep clicking on TY Shots
watching Joe Rogan again? susThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day ago
Ben Shapiro fans in shambles
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
either him or charlie kirk.
jjfolken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Me watching Pokémon episodes in YT
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 day 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 23 hours ago
Kaze is a god
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
so just turn off your youtube view and search history
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 4 hours ago
Hopefully Google doesn’t bypass that anyways.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven’t watched a video there in over a year.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day 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.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“will start”
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ya know, I’m starting to think Google uses our data for doing more than providing the service that we sign up for… 🤔
omniman@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
they are collecting data points and creating a brain for ai to live in
medem@lemmy.wtf 1 day 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 day ago
No… That cannot be true, considering how rich the company is, so no, your statement must be incorrect according to my analytics. /s
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 day 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.”
rbos@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I watch a lot of Bluey…
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
hopesdead@startrek.website 1 day ago
So watching a Australian man review mp3 players will mean what?
iopq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Millennial
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Is that the green iPad man?
hopesdead@startrek.website 1 day ago
Yes, DankPods.
1D10@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day 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 day ago
Ok so it’s sometimes right.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 day ago
Googles knows a LOT more about you than what you watch on YouTube.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 day 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.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
iopq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I play a game from 1999, I guess I’m safe
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day 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 day ago
Hopefully my frequent playing of 90s music playlists works out!
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day 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 day 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 day ago
Can’t we just stick to pinky swearing that I’m an adult?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
My account is old enough to buy beer. The fuck do you think, YouTube?