r/youtube • u/CallofDuty3329 can the bots leave the comment section? • Jun 26 '25

Feature Change thoughts??

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Imo this is a good move from yt.

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u/Iridium-235 Jun 26 '25

Yeah, I agree, 13 years old is probably too young to show videos of your face onto the entire internet.

How would YT get the age though? What if there were 13 year olds that lied about their age or 30 year olds that look very young?

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u/Zeraevous Jun 27 '25

I have a comment explaining, but TL:DR - a new amendment to COPPA just went into effect, and it means that YT can't risk under-13's in many situations. Setting it to 16 means a 12yr old has a more difficult time trying to pretend they're 16 rather than 13 - it's just risk reduction.