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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

YouTube will start guessing your age

based on the types of videos the user searches for

and the categories of videos they watch.

For example, I watch restorations of World War I cigarette lighters and videos about knee pain.

And that's why YouTube correctly guessed my age of 245.

So, honest to God, there needs to be some sort of algorithm reset button that you can do.

Right. I shouldn't be afraid to search on things and think, ah, I'd like to look that up, but

then I'll end up with nothing but that for the next six months.

So I don't look up some things.

Like I had a brief week where I enjoyed those videos where they have babies, like they have the audio

from Trump, but it's a baby Trump or whatever. I enjoyed that for a couple of days. But, you know,

Instagram or YouTube or whoever thought, well, this is the only thing he likes in the world.

He likes it better than air. And so that's the only thing I get fed.

How do you turn that off? Yeah, just give it time.

I remember I needed to look up something about the OJ trial, then endless OJ videos. I got what I need.

I don't need. I don't need OJ videos. When I wake up in the morning and click on YouTube,

I don't need 15 different OJ videos. I'm just laying it. Tech is going in the opposite direction. They are utterly convinced knowing you, everything about you, your habits, your needs. That's the way to go. But surely they realize they're wrong about this. So there's got to be a way to fix that. I don't know how they would differentiate between things that actually are your passion.

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