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This is a good point, YouTube on my smart TVs is logged into my account, my kids are forever mangling my search history with Roblox, Minecraft, squishies & other random things kids are into. I'm sure Google / YT has no idea what type of ads to serve me!

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> I'm sure Google / YT has no idea what type of ads to serve me!

I am sure the smart folks in Google will know who is watching based on the videos being watched and show appropriate ads at that time or maybe show generic ads about products which they know parents with young kids want.

That wasn't the case just a few years ago, not sure how it works now since I've shifted my kids to YouTube Kids entirely. Youtube would casually throw in a 3-minute-long beer ad in the middle of a cartoon compilation my 3-year-old watched...

Doesn't matter. Even for kids' ads, the parents are the target

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