mesaNov 7

YouTube 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.

YouTube 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.

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Show threadDFX4509BNov 7
One 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.
Show threadTim_BisleyNov 7
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.
Show threadDFX4509BNov 7

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.

Show threadfloofloofNov 7
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.
Show threadDFX4509B
Age-gated vids have been login-walled for a while now, non-age-gated stuff is still viewable logged out, for now.
Nov 7 at 7:07pmWeb
Show threaddarkkiteNov 7

they could but it would harm a lot of organic growth since they rely on content being easily shared.

i don’t think they will do chrome only as that would be anticompetitive

Show threadnyanNov 8
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.
Show threadDFX4509BNov 8
Assuming mirroring isn’t borked by that aforementioned DRM.