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I'm a bit taken aback that YouTube won't let me add these to a private playlist, because they're oriented towards kids. Huh? What does this accomplish?

101011 5y ago
Interesting, according to this blog post: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/better-protecting-kids-... > YouTube now treats personal information from anyone watching children’s content on the platform as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user. This means that on videos made for kids, we limit data collection and use, and as a result, we need to restrict or disable some product features. For example, we no longer serve personalized ads on this content or support features such as comments, live chat, notification bell, stories, save to playlist, and others. So it's to keep kid behavior from being tracked. Kinda cool.
- hoseja 5y ago
  How does "save to personal playlist" track you? Are they trying to say they don't even internally log videos kids watch?
  - SyzygistSix 5y ago
    I guess that means YouTube tracks everything in playlists so rather than give up on tracking people they would rather disallow putting content marked as "for children" in playlists.
  - lrem 5y ago
    First mistake: you're trying to apply your usual reasoning to an area governed by emotions. Second mistake: you're glossing over the obvious. "Save to personal playlist" tracks you by keeping a list of things you told it to save. Third mistake: you're forgetting the wider context. Google is such a juicy target, that the criteria are becoming "can an adversary convince a clueless person this deserves a jillion credits fine?" Children's data is as toxic as medical data and you don't want it anywhere near your service, unless you really really have to and both legal and privacy agree there's no remotely viable alternative. Source: I'm regularly taking the mandatory trainings in Google.
throwaway3699 5y ago
> This happened when a YouTube peado ring was discovered using playlists and comments to share clips. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698084

101011 5y ago

Interesting, according to this blog post: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/better-protecting-kids-... > YouTube now treats personal information from anyone watching children’s content on the platform as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user. This means that on videos made for kids, we limit data collection and use, and as a result, we need to restrict or disable some product features. For example, we no longer serve personalized ads on this content or support features such as comments, live chat, notification bell, stories, save to playlist, and others. So it's to keep kid behavior from being tracked. Kinda cool.

hoseja 5y ago
How does "save to personal playlist" track you? Are they trying to say they don't even internally log videos kids watch?
- SyzygistSix 5y ago
  I guess that means YouTube tracks everything in playlists so rather than give up on tracking people they would rather disallow putting content marked as "for children" in playlists.
- lrem 5y ago
  First mistake: you're trying to apply your usual reasoning to an area governed by emotions. Second mistake: you're glossing over the obvious. "Save to personal playlist" tracks you by keeping a list of things you told it to save. Third mistake: you're forgetting the wider context. Google is such a juicy target, that the criteria are becoming "can an adversary convince a clueless person this deserves a jillion credits fine?" Children's data is as toxic as medical data and you don't want it anywhere near your service, unless you really really have to and both legal and privacy agree there's no remotely viable alternative. Source: I'm regularly taking the mandatory trainings in Google.

throwaway3699 5y ago

> This happened when a YouTube peado ring was discovered using playlists and comments to share clips. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698084