No thanks. I don’t want giant monopoly companies to get into the habit of being a moral police or doing the government’s dirty work on surveillance or censorship.
>Age estimation: Our age estimation model uses machine learning to interpret a variety of signals already associated with a user's account, such as the types of information a user has searched for or the categories of videos they've watched on YouTube. These signals help us determine whether a user is likely over or under the age of 18.
There's already jokes about people watching too much Minecraft content on YouTube and getting flagged as a minor; I guess for every childish thing you watch, you should balance it out with mundane adult oriented searches related to taxes, local by-laws or whatever it is they're using for a signal!
As long as the logic includes a check on account birth (not your birthday, when the account was opened) I think for us oldsters who got one in the early 2000s there's a simple continuous-use test. It isn't infalliable, but the age of an account should weight strongly in their model no matter how many kids cartoons you watch.
If you're under 18 and doing actuarial studies, or accounting, remember kids those hard yards revising tax law and age-death statistics pay back!
