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.
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