A PSA about my videos

Starting in January 2020, if creators mark a video as directed at kids, data collection will be blocked for all viewers, resulting in lower ad revenue, and those videos will lose some of the platform’s most popular features, including comments and end screens.

Google confirmed that this new system was the result of a landmark $170 million settlement YouTube reached with the Federal Trade Commission in September for allegedly violating children’s privacy. It’s the largest fine ever collected under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which forbids collecting data from children under the age of 13 without explicit consent from their parents. In this case, the ruling means YouTube can’t employ its powerful ad-targeting system on anyone who might be under the age of 13 — a dire problem for a platform with so many young users.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13...coppa-ftc-fine-settlement-youtubers-new-rules

 

We support you Bo .

 

When I was going through deleting the videos from my two accounts, it was odd... One account had the option of making a default selection of "not for children", "for children", or "select for each upload"... the other account (the older of the two) did not.
Some videos I could tag directly, others I could not, and it was tedious navigating to where I could delete my own videos.

It really is BS. This is a problem that YT (and Facebook, and others) have created themselves because of the way their tracking systems follow users' activity around YT and other online activities.
THEY are tracking.
THEY are targeting advertising based on those tracking results.

But now it is the content creators' responsibility to make sure that YT does not violate the privacy of children? :banghead:

So flag all of your videos as for children... YT won't track and you won't be in violation... but then your video will also not be promoted because YT cannot target advertising at children.
I guess that is one solution for hobby type video sharing where we really don't care about promotion, views, and monetization.

 

Youtube "needs" to go to login only, no anonymous viewing.

They said you needed to be 13 or older to get an account, but were tracking non-logged-in users that turned out to be a lot of children under 13. Wow, big surprise there. They got caught, and fined.

Now, they are pushing back onto content creators, because Youtube obviously doesn't want the liability.

Youtube is blaming it on COPPA, but Youtube has a choice in how they implement this, and they're pushing it all back on content creators.

It's probably looking a lot worse than it will actually be ... but who knows? Our species isn't known for a high aggregate intelligence ...

 

Blame it on irresponsible parents who do not supervise their children .