YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers

Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by jariel on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:56PM (#26730290)

It's uncanny how bad the major players are at this.

You can click here [1] to see your supposed 'interests'.

It's uncannily bad.

'Combat Sports' , 'Boating', 'Construction and Power Tools' and 'Cricket' (!) apparently among interests they think I haven though they are subjects which don't cross my mind.

I don't think I've even thought about 'Cricket' other than for them to tell me it's 'an interest'.

[1] https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by banana_giraffe on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:11PM (#26730508)

Hah. For a job I had for a while I had to routinely search for movie names to make sure I got the spelling correct. Now google thinks I enjoy all the genres known.

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by ASalazarMX on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:25PM (#26730715)

I recently looked up car tires because mine were old and leaking air. It was a single day, but now it says I'm interested in "cars" and "car tires". No wonder why Seat started insistingly showing ads on my phone.

It also deduced correctly that I'm married with no kids, while my work account is married with teenage kids, probably from watching videos linked here in HN.

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by reader_mode on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:03PM (#26733261)

I have :

  Parental Status : Not A Parent

And then :

  Parenting
  Nursery & Playroom
  Babies & Toddlers
  Baby & Toddler Toys
  Baby Care & Hygiene
  Baby Strollers & Transport 
  Child Care
  Children's Clothing

An interesting algorithm you have there :D

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by hnick on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:39PM (#26733066)

Jeez how many do people usually have? There are just shy of 200 'interests' in my list. I'm not particularly interested in helping them out by editing it though. From what I saw the list is accurate in that it doesn't really contain anything I hate, but it's inaccurate since it's only a broken impression of all the things I like with many gaps.

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by nullsense on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:13AM (#26736293)

Pet food and pet care supplies. I don't, and never will own a pet.

Maybe too many cat videos?

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