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Am I the only one who didn't even know that youtube had age-restricted videos? Somehow I have managed to watch it for years without ever getting prompted for ag

Am I the only one who didn't even know that youtube had age-restricted videos? Somehow I have managed to watch it for years without ever getting prompted for age confirmation!

DoingIsLearning 5y ago
It depends on what your needs/interests are. For example I've worked in medical devices, I had to watch a lot of different types of surgical procedures for a specific application. A lot of surgical content gets tagged as 'adult' even though it has nothing inappropriate as such.
BitwiseFool 5y ago
YouTube had to crack down on all kinds of videos because of some laws that congress passed under the pretense of "protecting children". For many content creators it's easier to mark your video as age-restricted than to try and comply with child-friendly guidelines. This is also why so many videos now disable the comments section.
- loloquwowndueo 5y ago
  Seeing the incredibly inappropriate content the algorithm (tm) starts suggesting to actual children (I see you like numberblocks, maybe you'll enjoy this fake video of numberblocks killing each other and swearing or this extremely repetitive and epilepsy-inducing flashing video with a couple of numberblocks characters) it’s clear to me they don’t give a crap and just do the bare minimum to tick some legalese checkbox in some compliance form somewhere.
- pbhjpbhj 5y ago
  That sounds fine to me; child friendly should mean 'beneficial to children' or at least designed for children and not 'no searching nor nudity [nor extreme violence]'.
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  Yeah this definitely a government overreach thing rather than google's fault. Their implementation of the policy is kind of awful I suppose though.
bsdubernerd 5y ago
I've watched a few channels on retro-gaming where the authors intentionally marked the video as "age-resticted" with the usual disclaimer "the video might contain images that can be disturbing to some people". As in, 8bit gore. Sadly, the authors need to do this preemptively to avoid getting flagged and potentially taken down. Needless to say, I was using ytdl to bypass the limit, and I won't be able to watch these videos anymore. I'm not going to log in or give my ID to google.
izacus 5y ago
Google got a pretty big fine in US due to not properly gating things for minors on YouTube (based on COPPA law). I guess this is now the result.
- doggodaddo78 5y ago
  Fuck American hypocritical Hollywood, puritanical bullshit. Their kids are already watching gay horse sex and sheep bondage by the time they're 10.

Am I the only one who didn't even know that youtube had age-restricted videos? Somehow I have managed to watch it for years without ever getting prompted for age confirmation!

DoingIsLearning 5y ago

It depends on what your needs/interests are. For example I've worked in medical devices, I had to watch a lot of different types of surgical procedures for a specific application. A lot of surgical content gets tagged as 'adult' even though it has nothing inappropriate as such.

BitwiseFool 5y ago

YouTube had to crack down on all kinds of videos because of some laws that congress passed under the pretense of "protecting children". For many content creators it's easier to mark your video as age-restricted than to try and comply with child-friendly guidelines. This is also why so many videos now disable the comments section.

loloquwowndueo 5y ago
Seeing the incredibly inappropriate content the algorithm (tm) starts suggesting to actual children (I see you like numberblocks, maybe you'll enjoy this fake video of numberblocks killing each other and swearing or this extremely repetitive and epilepsy-inducing flashing video with a couple of numberblocks characters) it’s clear to me they don’t give a crap and just do the bare minimum to tick some legalese checkbox in some compliance form somewhere.
pbhjpbhj 5y ago
That sounds fine to me; child friendly should mean 'beneficial to children' or at least designed for children and not 'no searching nor nudity [nor extreme violence]'.
stjohnswarts 5y ago
Yeah this definitely a government overreach thing rather than google's fault. Their implementation of the policy is kind of awful I suppose though.

bsdubernerd 5y ago

I've watched a few channels on retro-gaming where the authors intentionally marked the video as "age-resticted" with the usual disclaimer "the video might contain images that can be disturbing to some people". As in, 8bit gore. Sadly, the authors need to do this preemptively to avoid getting flagged and potentially taken down. Needless to say, I was using ytdl to bypass the limit, and I won't be able to watch these videos anymore. I'm not going to log in or give my ID to google.

izacus 5y ago

Google got a pretty big fine in US due to not properly gating things for minors on YouTube (based on COPPA law). I guess this is now the result.

doggodaddo78 5y ago
Fuck American hypocritical Hollywood, puritanical bullshit. Their kids are already watching gay horse sex and sheep bondage by the time they're 10.