"will start"

Judging by the comments here I'm getting the impression that people would like to rather provide a selfie or ID.

So I just have to gain a brain rot addiction to regain my youth? When asked how this twelve year old managed to create a YouTube account 20 years ago, YouTube replied, "he's very clever."

Yea and they will know a lot more soon since i will buy the samsung project moohan VR headset that runs android XR. Google will become my eyes with the passthrough and they advertise the headset for AI use that can see everything i see... i'm not sure if i will turn that off right away or try to use it for some stuff. Right now i'm using a meta quest pro to work and do a lot of daily stuff so it's a question of meta or google for me and i decided to get out of meta's not so great VR hardware.

Adults arent watching cocomelon or aphmau

How to season your cast iron pan.

Can't we just stick to pinky swearing that I'm an adult?

Hmm seems suspicious.

Can you prove you're not a Korean baby?

Me watching Pokémon episodes in YT

I watch a lot of Bluey...

Ya know, I'm starting to think Google uses our data for doing more than providing the service that we sign up for..

How do you do fellow adult westerners

Maybe not, but I'm gonna bet most aren't taking the time or effort just to make a separate account for their child. Or even if they did, that the child is checking to make sure they use that account and not their parents. There's going to be a lot of overlap.

No... That cannot be true, considering how rich the company is, so no, your statement must be incorrect according to my analytics. /s

I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services 'for free', but is one of the world's biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?

YouTube Red Max Pro, of course

I like how people are proud of having 20 yo viewing history on YT. Send your browsing history to Google as well, see how impressed they are.

Mine is literally older than YouTube.

Why does YouTube need to know how old I am, explicit content isn't allowed on the platform so the age of the viewer isn't something they need to know.

There's a small part of me that has kind of wished that this kind of pseudo age verification was a thing for a while (even though there's a much bigger part that doesn't want any corporation to know a damn thing about me.)

I remember swinging through Walmart once to pick up a couple things.

My cart had, IIRC, some deodorant (old spice classic,) masking tape, a can of spray paint, some plumbing parts, a few fishing lures, socks, and a couple of snacks.

I had one of those "I've become my dad" moments looking at my cart. I feel like that shopping list is practically a distillation of every suburban dad who's ever existed.

But of course, I rang up the spray paint, and an employee had to come over to confirm that I was in fact some boring suburban white dude and not a teenager who was going to use it for mischief or huff it to get high.

Maybe I'm giving the juvenile delinquents of today too little credit, or maybe my fellow grown-ups too much, but I feel like the venn diagram of people buying fishing lures, a new toilet flapper, and socks, has basically no overlap with vandals and paint-sniffers.

So I kind of felt like maybe the almighty algorithm could have picked up on that and let me skip having the underpaid giving me a quick looking-at before punching his code into the self-checkout.