Yesterday, I enabled YouTube to check the notification bell, and got hit with the new age restriction. I definitely understand why child safety is a concern on this platform. This doesn't seem *as* bad as the COPPA response, and possibly slightly less intrusive than the "advanced features" verification prompt a couple years ago, but it's still suspect - especially with all YouTube should have already seen (or does something preventing it from using old/wider sources of data?), the partner company for ID verification, and when this is happening. I'm definitely not complying with that any time soon, so we'll see what happens. A couple questions for people who've dealt with this: Does the uploaded ID have to match the name in your account? I recall that being required with past prompts. Did your YouTube app end up bugging out? My phone's instance went unusable across accounts, though I question how related that was, especially since it's normal today.
Half-related... there were many reasons I'd wanted to put more online, plenty that would conflict in time, but a good chunk was the opportunity to make things 'last' better than I could or would offline. That said, I initially made this account for security. Further into the 2020s, especially after... probably Spring 2024, these interests have conflicted frequently. On one hand, what's here survived while much more of the past hasn't, and the account's still important for interacting with various people/communities. On the other, there's quite a bit I don't stand by (it would also be nice to separate childhood from adulthood, though that's tangential), much of the effort to be known has become a regret, and especially with "AI" being pushed into everything, it feels like I don't do enough. So, this is a heads-up. Recent years (mostly 2024) changed a lot, but if matters continue in this direction, there's a good chance "Cyanic Core" will either become further personal, or further vanish.
I don't think there's anything else important at the moment. Cya!
P.S. Wait, this is across all of Google!? I got an email implying that today... Well, that's interesting. It's possibly more good than bad for me, if it's really going to end personalized advertisements. It's still ridiculous.
Cyanic Core
Yesterday, I enabled YouTube to check the notification bell, and got hit with the new age restriction. I definitely understand why child safety is a concern on this platform. This doesn't seem *as* bad as the COPPA response, and possibly slightly less intrusive than the "advanced features" verification prompt a couple years ago, but it's still suspect - especially with all YouTube should have already seen (or does something preventing it from using old/wider sources of data?), the partner company for ID verification, and when this is happening. I'm definitely not complying with that any time soon, so we'll see what happens.
A couple questions for people who've dealt with this: Does the uploaded ID have to match the name in your account? I recall that being required with past prompts. Did your YouTube app end up bugging out? My phone's instance went unusable across accounts, though I question how related that was, especially since it's normal today.
Half-related... there were many reasons I'd wanted to put more online, plenty that would conflict in time, but a good chunk was the opportunity to make things 'last' better than I could or would offline. That said, I initially made this account for security. Further into the 2020s, especially after... probably Spring 2024, these interests have conflicted frequently. On one hand, what's here survived while much more of the past hasn't, and the account's still important for interacting with various people/communities. On the other, there's quite a bit I don't stand by (it would also be nice to separate childhood from adulthood, though that's tangential), much of the effort to be known has become a regret, and especially with "AI" being pushed into everything, it feels like I don't do enough.
So, this is a heads-up. Recent years (mostly 2024) changed a lot, but if matters continue in this direction, there's a good chance "Cyanic Core" will either become further personal, or further vanish.
I don't think there's anything else important at the moment. Cya!
P.S. Wait, this is across all of Google!? I got an email implying that today... Well, that's interesting. It's possibly more good than bad for me, if it's really going to end personalized advertisements. It's still ridiculous.
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