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.

so just turn off your youtube view and search history

Because they need to know who to target ads for gutter cleaning systems and fat man t-shirts.

I watched a single motorcycle video on computer logged out of YouTube. All the related videos were rage bait right wing content. None related to motorcycles.

As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven't watched a video there in over a year.

Kaze is a god

Vincent? Vincent Adultman? I haven't seen you since business college when we took company 101 together with Professor Realguy!

How have you been?

UK age filter be like:

Access granted.

All part of the right-wing propaganda machine.

Well that's gonna be interesting since the TV runs on my account but 99.9% of the time it's my kids watching...

YouTube has started showing me ads for planning my own funeral

They'll actually outright ban you if you've ever watched any DannyGo!

YouTube thinks I'll buy a Rolex LMFAO

Hopefully Google doesn't bypass that and record your history to guess your age regardless.

In fact, Google probably still records your view and search history even if you turn those off, and turning off view and search history probably just blocks it from getting added to the recommendation algorithm.

Basically, the best course of action, while it still is a course of action, is to just watch YT either on one of the few Invidious instances left standing, or on Grayjay, but still, purge your search and view history and disable it moving forward for added peace of mind if anything.

Better yet would be to straight-up log out of YT on your browser and only watch YT in Invidious or logged in on Grayjay moving forward.

they dont watch dora the explorer or blue clues though. they watch something like pokemon,yugioh which are suppose to be targeted at kids.

if you're not logged in, which i dont, it will try to reccomend controversial videos to you.

either him or charlie kirk.

some scifi shows in the early 2000s.