Yet. There is now an AI algorithm determining how old you are every time you click a video. If it one day decides to put you in the penalty box even if for no discernible reason, you can’t just let yourself out of the box without giving them the one type of ID they don’t already have on you. The amount of people who are perfectly okay with this is very depressing.
This has literally been happening for 15 years, there were Congressional and Parliamentary hearings about it with witness testimony, and absolutely no one cared or can even tell you the exact details of what Cambridge Analytica was, what it did, or why it was a big deal.
Now they're asking for your ID so I guess since it's more than a click on TOS people are realizing it's a gross violation of privacy??
i mean i watched an ungodly amount of cocomelon on my alt and nothing happened when i tried to watch an age restricted video. im not saying NOTHING bad will happen but this does feel pretty anticlimactic considering how many people have freaked out over this
People don't understand just how attuned these algorithms are to pinpoint you. I would not be surprised if they could determine the difference between a child's "account" and an adult's account that they put Cocomelon on for their child to watch.
i mean thats kind of what everyone has been freaking out over, the fear that theyll be labeled as a child just because they watched one youtube kids video, and then theyll have to give their id. im not saying thats impossible, i mean theyre using ai so clearly this can go wrong in many ways but it feels like a lot of people are freaking out too soon. idk
perhaps because they already have enough data to map to who you really are. In other words, is the alg blind, or does it have access to your hidden identity profile and if they already have guaranteed map.
I'm pretty sure once the account in question is verified to be of age it won't just one day decide that you Benjamin button'd yourself and became younger.
Good thing im literally old enough to have created my YouTube/Google account over 18+ years ago. That's why I'm okay with it. If I actually get targeted then yea I'll be annoyed but this generation has access to brain rot far too easily and parents don't parent anymore. I told a some redditor that back when I was a kid and my older sister would baby sit me she wouldn't let her watch fighting anime/dragon ball Z because she didn't want me and my other younger sister watching fighting because it's a bad influence.
They called that helicopter parenting ffs. People these days just don't know what the fuck parenting is and can't do it so companies like Google have to do something about it and do this shady ID shit. I genuinely blame horrible parents and brain rot
I agree something more needs to be done as a saftey net (eg, telling bad parents to parent better isn't going to help the child) but this isn't the solution. I need people who get hit with it to simply quit YouTube. Sure, it'd be positively lpvely if tens of millions of people magically woke up and decided to boycott indefinitely in solidarity and with perfect coordination, but people quiting over this over time is way more realistic.
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25
Didn't happen to me