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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago
  • Disabling personalized advertising
  • Turning on digital wellbeing tools
  • Adding safeguards to recommendations, including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content

Couldn't they just make this default for everyone? No need to distinguish between teens and adults for that.
YouTube says it plans

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Turning on digital wellbeing tools

Not that though, fuck that shit.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, let Google and YouTube raise your children what could go wrong. How about society verify you're not an absolute fuck wit and capable of raising children.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

i mean, that's what raised me

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Both my YouTube and google accounts are over 20 years old. I don’t think I’ll have a problem, but you never know…

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You know they won’t take that into account.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

My main YouTube I had since 2006, but I got new email and it's on 6 months old. I do pay for Premium and the shit I subscribe to and watch is vanlifers and cooking shows, along with music video's. Clearly I am an adult. I also about start an YouTube show. They will see I am an old man lol.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, honestly this is one of the better uses for machine learning. Not that this age checking is a good thing but if you're going to do it on a mass scale then this seems like the right approach. I imagine that especially for a relatively heavy user this is going to be extremely accurate and far better than the alternative of providing a selfie let alone picture of an ID.

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