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Got Hit with YouTube Age Verification Check (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Naho_Zako@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev
 

Last week I tried to watch the "Shut the Fuck Up PSA" from the National Lawyers Guild, and it was age blocked. I did try to log in, but now you have to VERIFY your age too (obviously I clicked off that shit).

But honestly, alternative frontends like Freetube and yt-dlp might not make the cut anymore:

Mpv crashed, and Invidious instances keep saying "video may not be age appropriate"

Edit: My state is soon to perform age verification on social media sites, so this is probably the cause. I'll just have to VPN to other states or countries until VPNs fail/are blocked.

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[โ€“] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Seems more like unecessary corpo powertripping, to me.

None of the tech companies want to do this. They're being forced by age verification laws.

[โ€“] Feyd@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

Funny how they have huge successful lobbies for everything but this eh