Submitted 2 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2025/11/youtube-expands-ai-age-verification-widely-us.html
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.
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.
I 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?
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.
I think we need to hit these companies where it hurts and stop using them until they refuse to comply with governmental age verification
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.
Getting GrayJay was the best decision I made. However much the one time license was, I have 0 regrets.
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.
I swear to god Google I will delete my account and use a front end for every single time I see a video on your platform, so help me God.
I guess reVanced will remove this shit
sigh
peertube
I don’t understand why people are so afraid to ditch YouTube
A lot of creators I watch are YouTube exclusive with their content.
If they were on Peertube, I’d delete YouTube in a heartbeat.
But I also understand that a lot of them make their living off ad revenue, so I don’t blame them for staying.
You can also check out nebula. A good chunk of them are there.
Why commit to them instead of finding alternative creators on a different platform?
Not “afraid” to “ditch” a monopoly. It’s a monopoly.
If you want to transfer every video to a different service, be my guest.
I mean, it gives you tools to export your videos out.
aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
the internet fucking sucks so bad now oh my GOD
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
its nice here all things considered
Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The thing about sites like these is that they are augmented by other sites like YouTube or Imgur.
If you live in the UK now, you won’t be able to open Imgur links, catbox rarely works and YouTube requires age verification.
There are of course alternatives, but they’re barely used.
dil@piefed.zip 1 day ago
A small bastion where ppl still make sense, lemmy is why I still have faith in ppl on the internet, what we get without controversy fueled algorithims is people just actually discussing sht and being helpful