Redterrors
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We make videos on a specific toy that kids under 13 enjoy as well as teens and adults over 13. Not even sure what it means to Target a specific audience under 13 unless you are doing videos for little kids with nursery rhymes, colors, kiddie style cartoons, it little kid toys, etc. I guess it's easier if you are targeting maybe 6-8 year olds and younger. How does one determine that your audience should stop at 13 year olds? Our older toy videos were for a younger audience I guess and I would mark them as such but I think our newer stuff starts at the older range of kids and up.
YouTube can stop all this nonsense and have people just verify their age!
As for family vloggers, my younger child watches a few of them on the YouTube kids app so it would be strange for those channels to say we don't target kids but YouTube has been putting their videos on the YT kids app this whole time while so many other channels don't have a single video on that app.
As for tracking kids, with YouTube's resolution for this law they will still 100% be tracking my older child who is under 13 based on the channels he watches. For example Dude Perfect. They will track every child who watches that channel whether or not they are targeting kids and the list can go on and on and on.
The problem with this whole issue is that Youtube has no idea how many kids under 13 watch regular Youtube. Nursery rhyme channels and preschool channels are obviously being watch by young kids, but I don't think Youtube realizes that most of these popular family vlogs and gaming channels are mainly supported by minors. So the FTC and Youtube is going to say, its fine for a gaming channel to track viewers even when 75% of the viewers are kids, but the preschool channels you can't track anyone. Youtube's current system has no way to identify the age of the viewer. Once an account is logged-in, it stays logged in forever regardless of who is using it and you don't even need an account to watch Youtube. This is not COPPA compliance, it is COPPA avoidance.