Today we’re sharing several changes designed to better protect data on children’s content on YouTube. Starting in about four months:
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1. We will treat data from anyone watching children’s content on http://YouTube.com as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user. This means we will only collect the data needed to support the operation of the service.
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2. Personalized ads will stop running on content made for kids.
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3. Features like comments and notifications will no longer be available on videos made for kids.
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4. Creators will have to identify content made for kids, and we’ll additionally find videos in this category using machine learning.
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Replying to @YouTube
What counts as content for kids? I'm guessing normal content that's also 'suitable' for kids doesn't mean it has to abide by these new rules? This is a weird grey area, please clarify
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I think this is for content like baby shark. Also the ads cannot be personalized meaning based off their viewing history and such.
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Replying to @AtlanticCraft @GamingSpeedy and
there will still be ads but just not the creepy ones. Like when you google search about houses and then you see ads on websites for houses
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Well this is happening for Minecraft too, so you’re also screwed.
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