If I get ID’d to watch youtube that would just encourage me to not use youtube anymore
Yup, that’s the point where I switch. Already got rid of Chrome a long time ago.
If the system has inaccurately called out a viewer as a minor, the mistake can be corrected by showing YouTube a government-issued identification card, a credit card or a selfie.
YouTube, “Oops, we made a mistake, please give us ID to correct our mistake”
Verify these nuts.
You misspelled “deez”
The political pressure has been building on websites to do a better job of verifying ages to shield children from inappropriate content since late June when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law aimed at preventing minors from watching pornography online.
Except they’re not verifying ages…
They’re verifying identities, because their data is worth a shit ton more when they can tie it to a real name.
And you can’t avoid ads.
PeerTube, here i come
Shocked, yes shocked I am to find enshittification going on in this Google establishment.
You ever see some woman on the street and think “god damn!” ? Then you look closer and realize theyre probably 16? Lets skip that and just assume theyre all 18 or over I guess. Thanks AI!
/s
Right after they fucking neutered yt-dlp
What happened?
There’s an issue where dlp is forced to download a shitty 360p version of the vid you want because it needs cookies or something. There’s a fix on GitHub but you can’t just yt-dlp your link anymore without doing that fix
I was doing some research this morning and this is also happening with porn sites. VPN works, but these are dark times.
