[HN Gopher] YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Child...
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YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research
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Author : donohoe
Score : 33 points
Date : 2023-08-17 21:19 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| CatWChainsaw wrote:
| "May have". As if the FAANG company most deeply embedded in
| advertising, which is synonymous with identification and
| tracking, isn't just putting on a show of contrition to get the
| Bad Publicity Machine off of its back. I'll put away my cynicism
| when the world shows me it isn't warranted. By, you know, not
| tracking everything with the single-mindedness of a rabid
| bloodhound in an effort to _seeeerve aaaaadz_ every second of
| every day to every person on the face of the planet.
| deelowe wrote:
| Can you cite what in the article gave you the impression this
| had anything to do with YouTube and not the advertisers
| themselves? Because from what can tell, YouTube is relevant
| here only from a clickbait headline standpoint. The real issue,
| I guess, is that the websites themselves had tracking which was
| tied to the YouTube ad. I don't see what this has to do with
| alphabet.
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| amelius wrote:
| https://archive.ph/e7UBL
| mindslight wrote:
| Surveillance industry: We're shocked! Shocked to find out that
| child surveillance is going on around here. (Your dossiers, sir)
|
| Seriously, the US desperately needs a port of the GDPR that
| applies to people of all ages. As long as there are escape
| hatches for claiming plausible deniability, companies will abuse
| them.
| duringmath wrote:
| Because clicking a yt ad might land someone on a website with
| tracking cookies on it?
|
| You could say the same thing about Google search or any website
| with outgoing links for that matter.
| Blahah wrote:
| But children who can't type on a keyboard can navigate YouTube
| with clicks. If you've never seen a 3-4yo child use YouTube
| it's a revealing experience.
| duringmath wrote:
| What does that have to do with anything? The article isn't
| suggesting YouTube tracked children it's suggesting an
| advertiser's website did.
|
| *As with children's television, it is legal, and commonplace,
| to run ads, including for adult consumer products like cars
| or credit cards, on children's videos. There is no evidence
| that Google and YouTube violated their 2019 agreement with
| the F.T.C.*
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| Advertising on children's videos ensures that children are
| probably the ones clicking those ads- thus YouTube ads lead
| to tracking children.
| duringmath wrote:
| As stated advertising on children's videos is legal and
| commonplace, so singling out yt is a little weird. The
| whole situation is a bit of a paradox to be honest.
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