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Post by iggldiggl »

rhizome wrote: post #394
iggldiggl wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compared to classical music certainly, but between the 60s and the 90s the average song length did increase again: https://www.vox.com/2014/8/18/6003271/why-are-songs-3-minute...

Almost certainly in large part due to "Stairway to Heaven" and "American Pie."

:-) Depending how they used the Music Brainz data could be – there are enough longer songs around on albums at least. (Though American Pie was actually published as a double-sided single, interesting)

While this is admittedly rather handwawy, even outside of this I have the impression that there must have been some lengthening: It feels like basically every Rock & Roll song from the 50s/early 60s mostly is around the two minute mark and very rarely even approaches three minutes. Afterwards however, three or four minutes doesn't seem that unusual to encounter, never mind those really long songs, too.

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Post by windowojji »

JI00912 wrote: post #194
pitaj wrote: post #115

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...only in some jurisdictions where it's required by law.

It's not required in my country and I get the checks. This has nothing to do with legislation.

Please say which country you're referring to when you say "in my country" on the internet. It allows others to contextualize and verify otherwise useless information.

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Post by littlestymaar »

vorpalhex wrote: post #334
littlestymaar wrote: post #321

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Related anecdote: A few years ago, my father bought a android tablet to my grand parents (both 85+). After watching them use it for a few minutes, I realized how user hostile the technical world has become: tons of ads popping up and asking for your attention (“click me”, “download x”, “make your device run faster”, etc). This and apps “redesigned” every few month, breaking the workflow they've struggled to learn (th…

Root it, install a dns level adblocker (either for their network or just the tablet), install appropriate apps for them (preferring FOSS when possible via fdroid) and relock the tablet before giving it to them. Oh, and run a backup of the whole device first.

In fact I did exactly this to solve the ad issue, but they ended up stopping anyway because they couldn't cope with the constant UI change of their apps (Skype & TV replay apps). And there's nothing I could do about it.

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Post by int_19h »

Spivak wrote: post #81
wyager wrote: post #59

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This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.

Sounds good. Say I'm a non-technical parent that wants to give my child access to YouTube but not allow them to watch content that they're not old enough to consume on their own. How should I do this? I want to give them the freedom to explore topics they're interested in so downloading some pre-approved videos isn't going to work. And my kid is smart and will realize that any account-specific setting can trivially b…

I suggest that you have a talk with somebody who grew up as a kid with unrestricted Internet access. It might turn out that it's not actually a big problem after all.

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Post by NackerHughes »

vasco wrote: post #339
qwerty456127 wrote: post #316

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But I don't want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don't want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what's there but I don't want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just u…

I'm born in whatever far back year forms will let me choose in most internet services, over a 100 years old in a lot of cases, I assumed everyone did this.

Youtube make you submit your ID or credit card details now as proof of age.

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Post by [deleted] »

badsectoracula wrote: post #395
cvwright wrote: post #364

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By "computers" I assume you mean "phones and tablets", because Apple is still a small minority of the world's desktops and laptops. Even then, ask yourself: Why do so many people pay $800 for an iPhone instead of $200 for some Android? They didn't become #1 by selling $99 developer accounts.

> Even then, ask yourself: Why do so many people pay $800 for an iPhone instead of $200 for some Android? Because Apple has managed to make their mass produced commodity products be a status symbol.

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Post by sebmellen »

int_19h wrote: post #417
sebmellen wrote: post #285

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This only reinforces my image of the UK as a long since resigned totalitarian police state — that, along with the huge 1984-esque CCTV posters with giant eyes hanging watchfully over a dreary autumn midday in London.

The whole "asbo" thing that they had for a long time was also in a similar vein. And the ability of even fairly low ranking police commissioners to declare some area as having "high chance of violence" temporarily, which allows them to stop and search people without warrants or anything like that - basically like stop & frisk in NYC, but without the pushback. On the upside, following UK police twitter accounts can be…

I see much of the hardline Islamic substrate in the UK as deeply totalitarian. See this BBC Panorama documentary on Sharia courts functioning as a separate legal system for an example of what I’m talking about: https://youtu.be/4gZCFdHkd4A.

If the all-powerful, authoritarian UK police and the (currently underground) Sharia courts ever collide or end up working together, that’s going to be one hell of a totalitarian trip. Not good at all.

Though France has similar religious demographics, I think France might at least stand a better chance of holding back the influence of Islam, given the country’s strong and storied secular tradition.

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Post by bouncycastle »

fsflover wrote: post #114
bouncycastle wrote: post #94

Recently, my 15 year old Google account started to nag me for my birthday. If Google was smart, they could have worked out that I'm old enough by now! (The account is older than 13 so definitely not a kid behind it, lol)

But maybe your parents created the account for you, when you were not born yet?

I'm over 13, which is the law that they're concerned with

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Post by lillecarl »

etxm wrote: post #141
toto444 wrote: post #14

A few days ago, I clicked an age restricted video on Youtube and usually I just state that I am above 18 but now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it. I am not going to send this just to watch some random video clip that users have declared not appropriate to a young audience because it features a zombie. Seriously!

That’s interesting because I had a credit card at 16 (it was on my parent’s account).

I had a debit at 12 (Visa Electron), my own account but approved at the bank by mom.

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Post by qwerty456127 »

rainbowzootsuit wrote: post #392
Seattle3503 wrote: post #326

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Does this work in practice? Most websites require text verification for accounts. With that they can just link separate accounts in the back end.

Maybe get a cheap MVNO SIM like Ting Mobile and use that to register? I know I've had google accounts that didn't require any re authentication in the way of phone numbers for going on years so you can likely discard the number after you show you are human.

Won't it still also require a credit card for YouTube to believe your age?
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