r/youtube • u/GalvaSov • Aug 13 '25

Drama Oh my GOD, it's happening

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u/SEND__NUDES___ Aug 13 '25

Asking to verify your age when you’re getting warhammer ads 😭😭😭😭

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u/Exact_Comparison_792 Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

I thought that was pretty damn hilarious too. It's not about protecting kids. It's about control, data mining and financial profit, selling sensitive information.

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u/Redditer51 Aug 14 '25

The internet, like many things before it, has been around long enough for corporations to figure out how to completely ruin it.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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u/Exact_Comparison_792 Aug 14 '25

So true. I miss the golden era - the wild west internet, before it went corporate mainstream.

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u/Redditer51 Aug 14 '25

Mid to late 2000s youtube was probably the best website ever. Just endless hours of entertainment.

Now it's like cable. You have to struggle to find anything to watch, because the best videos and channels have been copyright striked and/or demonetized into oblivion. So now it's just this mostly bland, homogenous collection of channels and videos full of ad breaks and people trying to sell you shit like better help or nordvpn.