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YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com)
Several users are reporting that they found YouTube autocompleting search queries starting with 'how to have' with disturbing suggestions, including 's*x with your kids' over the weekend. From a report: A YouTube spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the matter is still under investigation. "Earlier today our teams were alerted to this awful autocomplete result and we worked to quickly remove it," the company said. "We are investigating this matter to determine what was behind the appearance of this autocompletion." We tried the same query on YouTube less than an hour before publication of this story, and we found "how to have s*x in school," and "how to have s*x with kids" were still surfacing in the results.
My impression was that your previous searches would influence your autocompletes. I don't get the same results, mine are quite innocuous.
That being the case, I have to wonder about the people reporting this.
Well, at least it's s*x and not sex.
Everyone has kids knows that the answer in how to have sex with kids is to call Grandma or a babysitter for the evening, to to a restaurant with your spouse and then go straight in a motel or if you feel fancy, search a quiet spot, park there and put newspapers on the car's windows.
Hmm... so I guess even racists have become more politically correct. The autocomplete results for "how to lynch" do of course include "a black person" but not "a ni....".
Great. The system works. Yeah, they still wanna hang them, but at least it's not offensive!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Everyone has kids knows that the answer in how to have sex with kids is to call Grandma or a babysitter for the evening, to to a restaurant with your spouse and then go straight in a motel or if you feel fancy, search a quiet spot, park there and put newspapers on the car's windows.
Exactly. It doesn't surprise me that "how to have sex with kids" and "how to have sex kids" top the list especially during a holiday weekend. How the "your" got inserted is a slight mystery but it's possible that either people are typing it that way or google is somehow inserting the your for some reason.
or a barrel bolt on the master bedroom door just in case.
You seem to have either over achieving kids or an over active imagination.
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Only on /. you could make a joke about something disgusting and someone replies with well thought out, helpful information you wish you wouldn't have gotten...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Say it with me now. SEX! It's a thing, it exists, it's not a dirty word. Ok tutorials on youtube probably ain't great but why can't/won't TFA say the word sex. It's like they're talking about such forbidden fruit it's no wonder the kids end up so messed up, pretend it doesn't exist til they're 18 and then expect them to know all about it.
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