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 2 days ago
artyom@piefed.social 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.