mesaYouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users
YouTube expands age verification to more users. Several users are reporting on Reddit seeing new restrictions being applied to their accounts.
DFX4509BOne more reason to use an alt front-end, and clear/disable your watch/view history and not log into YT directly anymore, at least assuming Google don’t login-wall all of YT.
What alt front ends are there? How would you bypass the age check? Back in the day I didn’t have an account and you could get around it using third party sites but those don’t work anymore as far as I know.
Invidious mainly, and that doesn’t use any YT accounts, it’s the equivalent of watching YT logged out.
Also, Grayjay lets you log in through it but that probably doesn’t bypass the age check if you’re KYC’d.
Presumably once YouTube finishes rolling out age verification, all these age restricted videos will require logging in to view them and anonymous front end apps will be locked out.
Age-gated vids have been login-walled for a while now, non-age-gated stuff is still viewable logged out, for now.
Not unless they’re complete boneheads (which, admittedly, is not impossible). If they do that, they effectively lose embed-video-in-external-sites functionality, and that might just be enough for unpaid content creators to dump the platform en masse and cause their effective monopoly to crumble. The content creators who are actually making decent money may never leave entirely, but if another viable platform comes into existence, I bet most of them would mirror to it.
honestly I didn’t know invidious was still around. last time I tried to use it it was broken
Getting GrayJay was the best decision I made. However much the one time license was, I have 0 regrets.
artyomI don’t think you bypass the age checks with the alternative front-ends? I’ve been using FreeTube for some time, and whenever there has been an 18+ video, I would not be able to view it as I would not pass the age check. If this is a more general check that is being rolled out, I guess there will be less and less videos that will work through these.
I think I need to start hoarding video tutorial series and self-host them. Would something like TubeArchivist be my best bet for that?
mysticmartzI think we need to hit these companies where it hurts and stop using them until they refuse to comply with governmental age verification
KairuByteSounds good in theory but there just isn’t anything that can hold up to the same traffic. Don’t get me wrong, I’d migrate away from YouTube in a heartbeat, but there really isn’t much that compares when it comes to the creators, and the music. All of which are “free” and easy to access with an ad blocker.
And I’m including piracy.
Have you seen most YouTube videos? Nothing can hold up to the garbage content being pumped in by scammers and low effort “influencers” and shit like Mr beast or the Pauls or whatever is popular these days. We don’t need YouTube level capacity for good content.
But that bad content would flow over to the new platform. Just like bots and bad actors exist here on Lemmy, and wether or not you want them to be here they are.
You can’t build for “the good content” and assume the bad won’t follow. And honestly, once you hit a certain scale it is literally impossible to weed out the bad.
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)I just duckduckgo some youtube downlaoder sites, paste the link, then watch using VLC. Not seamless, but whatever, I can read a wiki article while I wait.
muusemuusePinch flat exists.