• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    This is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard in my life.

    In particular if I am online and neurotypical toxic people are thrown off by my ADHD, the VERY FIRST THING they do in their intellectual laziness is assume I am a kid.

    The idea that this isn’t considered an explicit oppression of neurodivergent adults is laughable to me. These systems will police for neurodivergence, not age. The obvious response from the center will be “just don’t act like a kid then” and I would like to send a pre-emptive “go fuck yourself you are destroying everything” to those people.

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      If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment… I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 25-35 range.

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        If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment… I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 9-9000 range.

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      I am autistic and like 60% of my watchtime is Minecraft smp.

      I no longer have an account to proof my age, i download subscriptions using yt-dlp

      I hope all the advanced science videos i am downloading somehow balance it out.

      chuckles i am in line to get oppressed.

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      I am autistic and have ADHD (inattentive, aka ADD), and when I was 13 people estimated my age in the mid 40s lmao

      And yeah now I’m the opposite, feeling more free to just ramble and stuff, without spending tons upon tons of energy to keep my attention with the conversation. So will I spend 50% of my time making points completely irrelevant to the conversation? Yeah. But I’m happier for it :)

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    Accounts used by multiple people enter the room.

    By kids often use my account on our shared family TV. We have adults in 30s/40s, early teens, and toddlers all using YouTube for different things.

    This is a stupid idea.

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    2 months ago

    I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.

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    The highly sophisticated and clever AI has already brilliantly identified several underaged people who have youtube or associated gmail accounts that are older than the minimum age.

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    2 months ago

    How long before a certain orange moron starts complaining that it keeps thinking he’s 13 for some reason?

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          I just find it kinda weird and annoying how y’all can turn unrelated topics into US news and politics. As someone who has never set foot there, I know way more than I need to about it because of how widespread your news and politics are, and how much it comes my way even when unrelated to the topic at hand.

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            You’re right. It’s even worse when you’re within the US because it just doesn’t stop. It’s rather arrogant of me to disregard other nationalities here and I’ll make more of an effort. I made a related joke in a space sub once and they were less than enthusiastic (to say the least).

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    I mean, I’ve heard of other sites using info like having a saved payment card in your own name, or the age of the account itself to know that the user is over 18 without needing ID.

    But this is Google, they want to flex their analytics and get as much additional info on everyone as they can.

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    I am almost 70 and my wife and have a great time confusing the AI targeted ads. I get tampon ads she gets men’s diaper ads. We never know what we are going to get since we are always feeding misinformation into our phones.

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      When you log into YouTube, a patented recog device does read your anus to confirm your identity. Its CCDs convert light into text-based codes, which represent your unique fingerprint of anal terrain.

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      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.

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    I watch plenty of penguinz0, This Old House, Smosh, and lawn care videos. Can’t wait to find out what YouTube makes of that.

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      I’ve got a random living room account that’s used for Gen alpha brain rot, 80s R&B music videos, video essays, nature live streams, kids shows, horror stories, and documentaries. good luck.