Why is YouTube getting boycotted this week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YouTube is at war with ad blocker extensions on browsers. At the moment, it is easy (but getting harder) to block ads by using Linux (I use Gentoo) and Ad Block Plus in Firefox web browser.

YouTube is using “protect the poor, widdle children” as an excuse to be able to identify people and bombard them with ads, which will increase revenue for YouTube.

Ad Blockers are interfering with their revenue, so YouTube is taking steps to stop it.

When I can no longer watch YouTube without ads slammed in my face constantly is when I will stop watching YouTube completely.

Ads are one reason I dropped cable TV. You do not get to charge me a fee to watch programs then interrupt my viewing repeatedly with ads.

Same. I haven't watched any program that airs on commercial TV in over 15 years. The commercials were getting weak and silly in the late 2000s, cannot imagine how bad they must be by now.

You are missing out on quality content while you are sitting on your high horse

I remember hearing that phrase a few times. I think it was that PBS garbage or something.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't imagine this AI age estimator to impact so many autistic individuals. A lot of autistic people (including my own son who is in college) have special interests in lots of communities like Pokemon, Minecraft, kid shows, etc. where the target demographic is targeted for kids.

[Anonymous]

Another reason to hate the government and AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another reason to hate the government and AI.

Yeah. Like we needed any more reasons to dislike Socialist Big Brother and AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very surprised with these out of context answers.

Apparently, YouTube is implementing AI age estimation based on your watch and search histories and how it will estimate your age.

A lot of people are already getting negative expectations saying as if “It was never about the kids!” Ffs, the government should NOT be involved in this whenever KOSA act gets implemented.

I'm middle aged but have many years of kid videos in my history because I am a parent. How can the AI tell how old I am?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very surprised with these out of context answers.

Apparently, YouTube is implementing AI age estimation based on your watch and search histories and how it will estimate your age.

A lot of people are already getting negative expectations saying as if “It was never about the kids!” Ffs, the government should NOT be involved in this whenever KOSA act gets implemented.

I'm middle aged but have many years of kid videos in my history because I am a parent. How can the AI tell how old I am?

It cannot, especially if you keep your camera covered. They just want your ID as a form of registration of useage and getting you used to "social credit score" type scenarios, and to sell your data for profitl

[Anonymous]

Like someone else said, the AI pretty much determines your age based on how long ago you created your Google account, your entire YouTube search and watch history. I think if your watch history contains more videos of something being meant for kids, then the AI will start flagging those to assume that you are more likely to be a kid rather than an adult.

Honestly, YouTube is being a stupid company once again. I believe this entire ID verification thing feels like a dystopia where 1984 felt like a warning for us.

Even Spotify for UK? They literally implemented something like this for an ID verification if you are caught under 18 because of the UK online safety act and how they are trying to improve “child safety” (PS: it actually isn't making kids safe.)

I am so tired of all these act that keep saying that it is to improve children safety on the internet, yet instead this feels like actual surveillance that the government is trying to take your information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YouTube is at war with ad blocker extensions on browsers. At the moment, it is easy (but getting harder) to block ads by using Linux (I use Gentoo) and Ad Block Plus in Firefox web browser.

YouTube is using “protect the poor, widdle children” as an excuse to be able to identify people and bombard them with ads, which will increase revenue for YouTube.

Ad Blockers are interfering with their revenue, so YouTube is taking steps to stop it.

When I can no longer watch YouTube without ads slammed in my face constantly is when I will stop watching YouTube completely.

Ads are one reason I dropped cable TV. You do not get to charge me a fee to watch programs then interrupt my viewing repeatedly with ads.

Same. I haven't watched any program that airs on commercial TV in over 15 years. The commercials were getting weak and silly in the late 2000s, cannot imagine how bad they must be by now.

You are missing out on quality content while you are sitting on your high horse

Like what??

[Anonymous]

You geniuses all thought that when a site asks you your age, it's because they don't actually need to know?

Let's see that energy when your 13 year old kids are buying weed and liquor at the shops. How dare they ask for id!

[Anonymous]

I work in social media and am 100% on board with as much regulation as possible.

People don’t understand how many predators there are online. It’s hundreds upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions. I did some consulting with federal LEO on catching people on social media, and there are so many predators, you could put every law enforcement officer from the FBI director to your local mall cop on crimes against children, and they still would only be able to catch and prosecute a small fraction of them.

That’s not even taking into account the death threats women receive online. I’ve worked with multiple women influencers and they get death threats nonstop, along with stalkers.

Men have proven they cannot handle the anonymity of the internet. They absolutely should need an ID to participate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in social media and am 100% on board with as much regulation as possible.

People don’t understand how many predators there are online. It’s hundreds upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions. I did some consulting with federal LEO on catching people on social media, and there are so many predators, you could put every law enforcement officer from the FBI director to your local mall cop on crimes against children, and they still would only be able to catch and prosecute a small fraction of them.

That’s not even taking into account the death threats women receive online. I’ve worked with multiple women influencers and they get death threats nonstop, along with stalkers.

Men have proven they cannot handle the anonymity of the internet. They absolutely should need an ID to participate.

TIL YouTube is anonymous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in social media and am 100% on board with as much regulation as possible.

People don’t understand how many predators there are online. It’s hundreds upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions. I did some consulting with federal LEO on catching people on social media, and there are so many predators, you could put every law enforcement officer from the FBI director to your local mall cop on crimes against children, and they still would only be able to catch and prosecute a small fraction of them.

That’s not even taking into account the death threats women receive online. I’ve worked with multiple women influencers and they get death threats nonstop, along with stalkers.

Men have proven they cannot handle the anonymity of the internet. They absolutely should need an ID to participate.

Quite a lot of people know the dangers of predators, its just awful how so many big companies like YouTube keep predators and their channels active on their site still. Then again, they also have an awful AI moderation which someone got falsely flagged for “child safety” over them hitting their microphone on accident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in social media and am 100% on board with as much regulation as possible.

People don’t understand how many predators there are online. It’s hundreds upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions. I did some consulting with federal LEO on catching people on social media, and there are so many predators, you could put every law enforcement officer from the FBI director to your local mall cop on crimes against children, and they still would only be able to catch and prosecute a small fraction of them.

That’s not even taking into account the death threats women receive online. I’ve worked with multiple women influencers and they get death threats nonstop, along with stalkers.

Men have proven they cannot handle the anonymity of the internet. They absolutely should need an ID to participate.

Quite a lot of people know the dangers of predators, its just awful how so many big companies like YouTube keep predators and their channels active on their site still. Then again, they also have an awful AI moderation which someone got falsely flagged for “child safety” over them hitting their microphone on accident.

People need to understand you can’t have your cake and eat it, too.

If we’re going to monitor for predators, we need AI to help. The alternative is to pay humans to, and we’ve seen that causes people extreme trauma when they’re exposed to it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

AI isn’t going to be perfect right from the beginning. Remember how horrible AI images were 2-3 years ago? It’s improved massively since then. Same with AI moderation. It’s not going to be perfect, but if we want moderation to keep predators away, we need to start somewhere. YouTube certainly doesn’t want legit creators getting kicked off for no reason, that would be bad for their business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in social media and am 100% on board with as much regulation as possible.

People don’t understand how many predators there are online. It’s hundreds upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions. I did some consulting with federal LEO on catching people on social media, and there are so many predators, you could put every law enforcement officer from the FBI director to your local mall cop on crimes against children, and they still would only be able to catch and prosecute a small fraction of them.

That’s not even taking into account the death threats women receive online. I’ve worked with multiple women influencers and they get death threats nonstop, along with stalkers.

Men have proven they cannot handle the anonymity of the internet. They absolutely should need an ID to participate.

Quite a lot of people know the dangers of predators, its just awful how so many big companies like YouTube keep predators and their channels active on their site still. Then again, they also have an awful AI moderation which someone got falsely flagged for “child safety” over them hitting their microphone on accident.

People need to understand you can’t have your cake and eat it, too.

If we’re going to monitor for predators, we need AI to help. The alternative is to pay humans to, and we’ve seen that causes people extreme trauma when they’re exposed to it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

AI isn’t going to be perfect right from the beginning. Remember how horrible AI images were 2-3 years ago? It’s improved massively since then. Same with AI moderation. It’s not going to be perfect, but if we want moderation to keep predators away, we need to start somewhere. YouTube certainly doesn’t want legit creators getting kicked off for no reason, that would be bad for their business.

Not true. Corporations replaced humans with AI and robots only to save money. A lot of them use bots as a way for customer support which I am absolutely against. Most of the time, AI will just repeat the same generic responses if a user were to get help. I know for sure that millions of internet users dont want AI to help them anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like someone else said, the AI pretty much determines your age based on how long ago you created your Google account, your entire YouTube search and watch history. I think if your watch history contains more videos of something being meant for kids, then the AI will start flagging those to assume that you are more likely to be a kid rather than an adult.

Honestly, YouTube is being a stupid company once again. I believe this entire ID verification thing feels like a dystopia where 1984 felt like a warning for us.

Even Spotify for UK? They literally implemented something like this for an ID verification if you are caught under 18 because of the UK online safety act and how they are trying to improve “child safety” (PS: it actually isn't making kids safe.)

I am so tired of all these act that keep saying that it is to improve children safety on the internet, yet instead this feels like actual surveillance that the government is trying to take your information.

lol? Spotify now needs age verifications? What for?