Getting GrayJay was the best decision I made. However much the one time license was, I have 0 regrets.
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.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah they still rarely work but I’d rather deal with intermittent inoperability than log into a YT account and use their absolute atrocity of a UI.
Also worth noting that paying for premium does not give you any more control over this waterfall of forcefed garbage.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
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.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Presumably once YouTube finishes rolling out age verification, all these age restricted videos will require logging in to view them.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
Age-gated vids have been login-walled for a while now, non-age-gated stuff is still viewable logged out, for now.
darkkite@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
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
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
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 casual video posters to dump the platform en masse and cause their effective monopoly to crumble.
aaronhooper@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
honestly I didn’t know invidious was still around. last time I tried to use it it was broken
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
There’s only like, one viable instance though: inv.nadeko.net.