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?
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.
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.
Not yet
On mobile, when I’m signed in, I get ads no matter if I use ublock origin or not. I don’t sign into youtube at all if I’m laptop.
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.
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.
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
Does it dependent on connection speed, or does it fully buffer before capturing? I find sometimes there’s some sections that will refuse to improve even if going back and replaying sometimes. Though I also wonder if sponsorblock can cut out sponsor segments from the finished product. Guessing it’s either/or?
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”
Nothing unified I’m aware of. I figured the YouTube ID thing would push pirate sites to add sections though.
Are you confusing NewPipe for Piped?
Sounds like something I’d do.
Was thinking “was new pipe the right project to reference in that comment” and I don’t think it was.
Oh, no thanks. I had fascism yesterday.
Can we complain and get that off the menu, please?
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.
/s
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
I was doing some research this morning and this is also happening with porn sites. VPN works, but these are dark times.
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 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
