It annoys the shit out of me that they never made the “kids” section of youtube an entirely separate thing.
That’s exactly what they did. Ten years ago.
It’s just that the FTC and COPPA force them to also mark anything that gets uploaded to regular Youtube and is “targeting” kids as such, because they aren’t allowed to collect data from anyone under the age of 13.
Yeah, at one point Youtube in their wisdom decided that toys are for kids, so anything to do with them got forcefully marked as “for kids”. I remember many LEGO and RC channels have issues with it. And having your video or channel marked as “for kids” disables 90% of Youtube features - comments, likes, notifications, saving videos to playlists or watch later, end cards etc.
Even then, Youtube basically has only two age ratings - either the content is suitable for everyone (but you do have to mark if it is specifically aimed at kids under 13), or it’s age-restricted to adults only. Imagine if movies only had the options of “G” or “NC-17”. But eh, in the end it is FTC and COPPA telling them what they have to do. The alternative is that you’d have to create an account and somehow age-verify that you are over the age of 13 before Youtube was allowed to show any videos.
The automated captions have been there for ages, and yeah, they often have a lot of mistakes especially if there are other sounds in the background.
But what sucks even more are those auto-dubbed videos, because often they are made from those subs. So now they speak in AI voices using a broken translation from a faulty transcript. Great, thanks youtube, very helpful.
Years ago, there used to be community subtitles as a feature - people could submit translations and corrections and creators could then allow them on the video. Why they removed that I don’t know, but those would be really fucking handy now that you want to auto-dub the videos eh, youtube?
YT Revanced is not a 3rd party client. It (and all vanced patches) work by taking the original app and patching the code directly, often simply to bypass sections of it entirely.
Let’s take background playback for example, the app has that functionality but it checks if the user has a premium subscription or not before allowing it. Revanced simply removes that check by jumping over the code and always returning true.
1 bitcoin is currently $112000. Yeah, they do.
I wonder when people (especially companies) learn that with open source projects, it’s the community and contributors who are in charge and not the “owner”. The moment you do something the community doesn’t like, they’ll fork the project, migrate, and your project is left in the dust.
Few examples off the top of my head - CyanogenMod/LineageOS. Maps me/Organic Maps/CoMaps. OpenOffice/LibreOffice.
If your company/business/project depends on user content, don’t piss off the users.
You don’t believe that the anticompetitive ad stuff Google has been doing for 11 years approached 2.5% of their one year profit?
Sadly it doesn’t, Google is currently the most profitable company on the planet, with them making 120 billion in pure profit 2024 and estimated to make even more this year, so this fine, for anticompetitive stuff going back to 2014, is less than 2.5% of their one year profit.
And there’s absolutely zero chance that they gained less than 3 billion from that, so this fine is just part of the cost of doing business.
That’s like the median income family in the US ($84k) getting hit with a ~$1k fine (remember, profit comes after expenses are paid) because they didn’t pay their taxes for over a decade, with no requirement of actually paying any of those taxes.
It’s going to be really hilarious if my account gets flagged by the AI.
I made it in 2004, it’s old enough to drink.