They are ârebelling against COPPAâ, but they should be rebelling against âYouTubeâs idiotic implementation of COPPAâ. YouTube basically fearmongered people into believing they must definitely mark their stuff as kids content if it has one of the indicators listed by the FTC, because YouTubeâs brainless algorithm does the same, not understanding that there is all-ages content that includes stuff listed, but isnât directly targeted at children. Itâs also done because YouTube refuses to disable the collection of customer behavior data on user level, shifting the burden of doing so onto channels so YouTube can still collect advertiser data from children but blame channel owners for not disabling that function.
Cool.
If you are into the 10,000 that xkcd mentions, here is some reviewing star wars for the first time.
Great read.
Dave Wiskus, Kurzesagt, and CGP Grey have founded a subscription-based streaming service thatâs ad free and pays content creators based on the percentage of view time their content generated. This soundsâŠgood?
So, what distinguishes them from any other platform besides that? Current viewership models do not indicate that the idea people will follow a content creator across platforms is true, you gotta have something else on top. And how is this different from Floatplane?
Oh yeah, corridor did a video about him recently. Heâs a cool guy. And on a family friendly channel, definitely lives up to his pseudonym.
So Alex Wellerstein wrote an article⊠Here it is, you should read it. It features the time the plans for (one of the first) thermo nuclear warheads⊠got lost on a train.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4364
The author of that article is the guy who made this old geeknights totd:
For when Katko v. Briney isnât motivation enough.