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”
I’ve used a debit card to verify being 18+ when I was 15. My own debit card.
Does it just assume that you’re 18+ if you have one?
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
Shocked, yes shocked I am to find enshittification going on in this Google establishment.
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.
With uBlock anyone can avoid ads.
not if you have to sign in
Work for me. Or is there some inobvious nuance?
If you block ads while signed in and they can detect that you’ve done so, sooner or later I expect them to start retaliating against your account. The threat of (for example) losing access to your GMail address because you blocked ads would probably be a strong deterrent.
i never liked yourube. i have barely ever watched it. and it has been a huge driver pf the enshitifcation of the internet since its debut, as more and more content became bideo content, and accessing useful information in text form became more and kore difficult.
it is kind of hard for me to have strong feelings about something that, in my opinion, has always sucked ass, sucking more ass
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
Backup YouTube now. Be sure to embed chapters, metadata and sub titles.
Sure I’ll just put that on my 10 Exabyte drive. On my 100Gbps connection.
I backed up a few dozen channels on a spare 3TB drive. Planning on making torrents to add to a seedbox later.
What’s the best method for maintaining quality when backing up a YT vid?
yt-dlp usually picks the best flags by default but may need your browser cookies. I usually manually set <=1080p
Obviously only the channels/specific videos of importance to you. No one is realistically proposing backing up all of YT.
I dream of the day we don’t rely on one host for user content like YouTube. I worry for the history of the content there.
I always secretly hoped one of the big porn companies would step up and start a competing service, since they’re probably the only ones with the necessary infrastructure already in place.
Aren’t there already basically projects for this? Seems like there’s a local download leftover on a newpipe server when someone plays a video through it?
I know very little about this, but seems like if was a reason for “why running your own newpipe server could be troublesome”
Are you confusing NewPipe for Piped?
Nothing unified I’m aware of. I figured the YouTube ID thing would push pirate sites to add sections though.
I’m working on my music playlist. It’s 1200 videos long and yt-DPP only gets Patr of the list. How can I download the full list?
You mean it’s skipping some of the entries in the actual playlist, or it’s just only getting the first x entries and then stopping?
I haven’t personally found a solution to random skipping to that other than allowing yt-dlp to use your account credentials/cookie to act as though it’s a signed-in user. YouTube is randomly deciding to block either some or all download attempts from non-signed-in clients, like yt-dlp.
If it’s just stopping after x number of videos, I have absolutely no clue.
I was doing some research this morning and this is also happening with porn sites. VPN works, but these are dark times.
YouTube can go fuck itself
Verify these nuts.
You misspelled “deez”
Why does YouTube verify age at all? Isn’t their content censored in the first place?
So it’s all about data harvesting and nothing more.
Sometimes there may be mention of dangerous words like “gun” instead of “pew-pew” or “killed” instead of “unalived”.
Have to keep the kids safe.
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PeerTube, here i come
If I get ID’d to watch youtube that would just encourage me to not use youtube anymore
Time to learn about Invidious, Freetube, and alt frontends.
Nah, I think I’ll use the opportunity to get away from it outright. And really if more people did do that youtube would roll it back pretty quickly
Also, what’s stopping Google from killing alt front-ends altogether by either completely login-walling YT, including for G-rated and PG-rated content and not just the age-gated stuff, implementing DRM platform-wide on YT and not just on paid commercial content ala movies or TV produced by one of the media conglomerates like they already implement DRM on, or both, at some point in the future?
Alt front-ends still work for now, but Google could kill them outright at any time.
Yup, that’s the point where I switch. Already got rid of Chrome a long time ago.
Oh, no thanks. I had fascism yesterday.
Can we complain and get that off the menu, please?
