YouTube is ready to start testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. using artificial intelligence to distinguish between adults and minors based on their viewing habits.
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Good thing I don’t use YouTube anymore because they block me for using an ad blocker even though it doesn’t do much on YouTube since they switched to serving ads natively.
Save us Hideo Kojima.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/brits-can-get-around-discords-age-verification-thanks-to-death-strandings-photo-mode-bypassing-the-measure-introduced-with-the-uks-online-safety-act-we-tried-it-and-it-works-thanks-kojima/
I’m surprised the toy market & microtransaction industries are not aggressively fighting this. YouTube has been the primary way for them to reach kids for the past decade.
So it’s off to PeerTube then, I guess? People could post the same video on both (yt and pt), and then on yt write something like “why not watch this on PeerTube instead?” although it’d probably get taken down.
Floppies are superior, fite me on that
My YouTube account is old enough to vote at this point…
age is a just a cover for controlling what you can see akin to “won’t somebody please think about the children!!!”
As others have reported, YouTube doesn’t give a shit about account age. It’s based on what you watch.
Sick, you can check my elderly face from thispersondoesntexist
I’ll be waiting, you can only check the age of my eggs
How old are your eggs?
For an excellent, and hilarious, take on this, check out Venus Theory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7INRHrObI
😂