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.
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
Kaze is a god
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.
“will start”
Ya know, I’m starting to think Google uses our data for doing more than providing the service that we sign up for… 🤔
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 ?
YouTube Red Max Pro, of course
No… That cannot be true, considering how rich the company is, so no, your statement must be incorrect according to my analytics. /s
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.”
I watch a lot of Bluey…
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.
so just turn off your youtube view and search history
I can’t tell if this is worse for bronies or MLP loving children.
Either way, I expect something newsworthy to come from this.
As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven’t watched a video there in over a year.
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.
Judging by the comments here I’m getting the impression that people would like to rather provide a selfie or ID.
Can’t we just stick to pinky swearing that I’m an adult?
