I don't think big corp wants you account sharing. "Violates ToS" they say.

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I am autistic and like 60% of my watchtime is Minecraft smp.

I no longer have an account to proof my age, i download subscriptions using yt-dlp

I hope all the advanced science videos i am downloading somehow balance it out.

chuckles i am in line to get oppressed.

If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment... I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 25-35 range.

I am autistic and have ADHD (inattentive, aka ADD), and when I was 13 people estimated my age in the mid 40s lmao

And yeah now I'm the opposite, feeling more free to just ramble and stuff, without spending tons upon tons of energy to keep my attention with the conversation. So will I spend 50% of my time making points completely irrelevant to the conversation? Yeah. But I'm happier for it :)

You were on 69 upvotes. Sorry for making that 70.

It annoys the shit out of me that they never made the "kids" section of youtube an entirely separate thing.

Like TV, they could curate the hell out of it and not just allow anyone to upload, but no, they instead made way too much money from elsagate videos and videos of kids swimming. Now that that's gone, it's now making money off of kids from AI slop.

Yeah, at one point Youtube in their wisdom decided that toys are for kids, so anything to do with them got forcefully marked as "for kids". I remember many LEGO and RC channels have issues with it. And having your video or channel marked as "for kids" disables 90% of Youtube features - comments, likes, notifications, saving videos to playlists or watch later, end cards etc.

Even then, Youtube basically has only two age ratings - either the content is suitable for everyone (but you do have to mark if it is specifically aimed at kids under 13), or it's age-restricted to adults only. Imagine if movies only had the options of "G" or "NC-17". But eh, in the end it is FTC and COPPA telling them what they have to do. The alternative is that you'd have to create an account and somehow age-verify that you are over the age of 13 before Youtube was allowed to show any videos.

I remember when they first rolled out the “made for kids” video designation, “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” (a horror video) was labeled as children’s content by the AI until enough actual users had pointed out the error on Twitter.

Nah, google accounts are a recent thing, no way can that be a thing... Can it?

Oh hell I'm old...

And that's not just a win for companies. The fact that my metadata is out there is great for me as a user. Like with targeted ads -- I get tons of coupons from cool restaurants.

This was literally the first thing that came to mind. So many people have android phones with cards already linked to google, paying for YouTube premium would do the same thing. But nope, Skynet is the better way to do it

Damn, y'all really can't think 'bout nu'in else, innit?

False, that song is clearly by Ke*$*ha

I watch a lot of gun videos on YouTube so they will probably assume I'm in high school.

They will base it on the stuff you consume. Like 90% of people online lurk and don't comment anything

When you log into YouTube, a patented recog device does read your anus to confirm your identity. Its CCDs convert light into text-based codes, which represent your unique fingerprint of anal terrain.

And y'all made fun of me for putting sunscreen on my asshole!

Yep I've had my account since 2006. It's old enough to vote.

I've got a random living room account that's used for Gen alpha brain rot, 80s R&B music videos, video essays, nature live streams, kids shows, horror stories, and documentaries. good luck.

I watch cartoons meant for kids. They're gonna think I'm 7.

My planned solution is to use a browser on a proxy that clears cookies after closing.

https://myadcenter.google.com/controls

It basically nailed everything about me :/

Same same but different here. This algorithm was meant to know my wants better than me but all I get is ads for credit cards, adult diapers & hoodies.

I am guessing this is a rethorical question, but, they already forcibly flag videos as "made for kids" against the creators' will (and despite very clear audience statistics proving it's not).

So yeah, they are totally using their magic 8-ball to restrict your content.

IIRC that is one parameter they actually mentioned taking into account.

I guess my 2006 or 2007 or whatever YouTube account (which, yes, I later connected with my Google account - not all that much later, in fact) will perhaps qualify me for adult-only content finally.

With all the data they collect I wish they would target me with the right ads. I don't want an AI girlfriend, to buy a toyota in spanish, or comemeritive trump merch

The account is, but it doesn’t say anything about the person using it.