I think my account is around 18 years old so let's see what the AI thinks.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
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Yep I've had my account since 2006. It's old enough to vote.
The system relies on signals such as the types of videos a user searches for and watches, and how long their account has been active, to determine whether they are under the age of 18.
They wouldn't restrict access to information based on your perceived age, would they?
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.
They were sometimes restricting videos for swearing or mentioning mature topics while being "made for kids" even though the videos were clearly not for kids.
Is this why Google sent me an email saying they changed my settings and I can scan in my ID if I want to change them back?
They already do this. There was a way to check and there may still be. When I checked like 10 years ago it was wrong about everything. Age, hobbies, everything
So good luck yt I guess
I always knew my fascination with redstone would come back to bite me
My planned solution is to use a browser on a proxy that clears cookies after closing.
Im told the technology can also estimate shoe size and the relative realtion of the two!
The day it starts I'm gonna upload a bunch of old videos in a playlist, looking to monetize
I’ve been wondering lately how effective a service would be that takes your credentials for a service, such as YouTube, and starts engaging with content at random so that the data the service has on you is all junk
Don’t know how meaningful something like this would even be, but if all these companies are gonna try so hard to collect data on me then I’d rather fill that data with useless junk
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
Using an ad blocker I get nothing but the types of ads I wanna see; Which is none at all. 😌
Search.... Sponge Bob Ross hand painting practice.
I didn't think they needed AI to do this