And if they can cater to that fetish totally fine, why aren’t my fetishes allowed??
As already stated, it isn’t necessarily a fetish, but you bring up a good point - why YouTube is enforcing some puritanical Christo-fundamentalist ethical standard is kind of ridiculous. As a European, where we have a less puritanical view of sex I’d like to be given the choice. It’s not complicated to keep sexual content behind a tickbox choice like on Twitter or Reddit, especially not when, you know, Google Play is their only real gatekeeper here and guess who owns them? They also already use credit cards and the like for “age verification”, so any excuse they have is vanishing more and more.
It’s more for the advertisers Google hosts on YouTube than any values Google is trying to project on their users, I bet. Advertisers don’t want their products advertised next to explicit content.
Google search is a little different in that the content is fairly separated from ads, unlike YouTube where they’re inescapable.
As already stated, it isn’t necessarily a fetish, but you bring up a good point - why YouTube is enforcing some puritanical Christo-fundamentalist ethical standard is kind of ridiculous. As a European, where we have a less puritanical view of sex I’d like to be given the choice. It’s not complicated to keep sexual content behind a tickbox choice like on Twitter or Reddit, especially not when, you know, Google Play is their only real gatekeeper here and guess who owns them? They also already use credit cards and the like for “age verification”, so any excuse they have is vanishing more and more.
It’s more for the advertisers Google hosts on YouTube than any values Google is trying to project on their users, I bet. Advertisers don’t want their products advertised next to explicit content.
Google search is a little different in that the content is fairly separated from ads, unlike YouTube where they’re inescapable.
You have a point. Google Images already shows you explicit content if you tick a box.