>YouTube has posted a sign outside the bar that says it’s not for kids and points to the playground next door, but then they serve anyone who comes in
What exactly do you expect them to do though? The only thing a birthdate selector does is give the web dev a misleading idea that the majority of their users were born on the first of January, 1900.
I hate how this article started out as a genuinely interesting, scientific study of a recommendation system, but quickly boiled down to a meager political debate about kids using technology.
Uh, did it? I mean, it talked about kids and YouTube in the last couple of paragraphs, which is an aspect to consider, but the rest of the article focused on the study, its limitations and the possible implications.
What exactly do you expect them to do though? The only thing a birthdate selector does is give the web dev a misleading idea that the majority of their users were born on the first of January, 1900.