Posted on 08/12/2025 5:58:25 PM PDT by Openurmind
Starting August 13, 2025, YouTube will introduce an age estimation model for U.S.-based users to identify those under 18, regardless of the birthdate provided during account creation. The initiative aims to enhance protections and deliver age-appropriate experiences for teenage users, including enabling digital wellbeing tools and displaying only non-personalized ads. This move builds on YouTube’s existing safeguards for teens and leverages advanced technology already in use in other markets.
The age estimation model will analyze various signals, such as a user’s YouTube activity and account longevity, to determine if they are under 18. Users identified as minors will receive a notification and can verify their age using a government ID, selfie, or credit card if they believe the estimation is inaccurate. This rollout follows successful implementations in other regions, with YouTube now gradually extending the technology to the U.S.
The new model will also impact content creators. Uploads from accounts identified as belonging to users under 18 will default to private, and these users will be restricted from earning revenue through gifts on vertical live streams. YouTube anticipates that some creators may see a shift in their audience demographics, potentially leading to reduced ad revenue due to the use of non-personalized ads for teen viewers. However, the company estimates this impact will be limited for most creators. YouTube is actively investing in new solutions to help creators grow their communities and monetize their content, with updates to audience reports in YouTube Analytics expected soon to reflect age estimations.
AI is very powerful, so amazing that it can tell that if a user had a youtube account for 22 years the user is over 18. WOW!
Someone here once suggested a program that can be installed on ones computer to access Youtube videos without actually logging into YT. Can’t remember the name of it for the life of me.
“Someone here once suggested a program that can be installed on ones computer to access Youtube videos without actually logging into YT.”
Yes, I remember, and I used it for awhile. You have to download the whole video and then watch, you cannot just watch it online. But Youtube activated software that will not allow it anymore. I use the terminal yt-dlp app for other video sites. I don’t go to Youtube anymore at all...
Do you have to “sign-in” to get that sort option... ?? I don’t do registers to websites if I can help it... but just don’t see the sort option at all.
Thanks for your time, btw...
Maybe it has to do with my browsers being privacy browsers (Mulvad, Librewolf, Waterfox, or Palemoon running adblocks on VPNs... not sure, but I don’t see the option to refine the search results (and don’t have a Rumble account).
So if you’ve had your account for more than 18 years, can they deduce that you’re safe?
“Do you have to “sign-in” to get that sort option... ?? I don’t do registers to websites if I can help it... but just don’t see the sort option at all.”
Actually you are good just going there as public forward facing with no account. On the initial index page you have a slew of videos and Categories and such. Once you click on a category or even one video you see interesting it will take you to a second page of results just like a search engines does. Or you can enter keywords in the search field and it will do the same. Entering search terms should give you a page that has filter options.
At the top of the next results page will be any “Channels” same as “Accounts” that happen to have the same keywords in their account name. And below that will be individual results based on your search terms. And you can refine and filter those by relevance, date, Etc. from a list in the right hand side column on that same second page. That column is not available from the initial front index landing page, It is only available on any second results page you pull up. :)
So here is the index landing page with current stuff:
Here is the page it takes me to with your search terms 22 lr. (note... A space in there between 22 and the lr makes a difference...)
https://rumble.com/search/all?q=22%20lr
That should give you options on the right side for “Sort by” and one of the filter options is “Most Recent”.
Let me know please if that works for you. Because I am using browser tools that sometimes gives me results others do not get... :)
“So if you’ve had your account for more than 18 years, can they deduce that you’re safe?”
That would be logical right? But have you ever been banned from Facebook or Twitter based on something completely illogical without real justification? Based on political or religious leanings yet it was based on a policy that did not even apply to the comment you made?
Well get ready for this tool to be used for those reasons so that they can swindle people out of their real ID to collect and database whether there is even reason for proof of underage or not. It will be their “excuse” to gather data. “We think you are underage”. Even though you have been coming there since Youtube was born...
If this tool can be used with abuse and ill intent it will be... Bet on it... We are talking about Youtube, Google, “Alphabet”. Literally “Government Intelligence” owned by the globalist NWO corporation BlackRock. No one in their right mind can believe they are going to use this honestly...
Before it is over with EVERYONE will be suspected of being underage and will be IDed... Justification or not, how will you fight it? Business is never wrong... The customer is always wrong. and there is no appeal to the decisions.
I hope everyone boycotts the hell out of them. But there are just enough STUPID people out there to support this and make it an across the board industry standard with all websites and service on the web.
I will repeat it again... The internet is dead and nothing but a completely negative situation. Comply and submit, stupid, stupid, stupid...
It was meant to be a military-level control trap from the very beginning.
“It was meant to be a military-level control trap from the very beginning.”
Yep... “Alphabet”...
SnapFace, Twits...
SnapFace, Twits...
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