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.
FYI: google might suspend and eventually delete your Google account if you don't verify your age within a set period of time.
They say it's to "prevent minors from having access to an account that isn't monitored by parents".
Seems more like unecessary corpo powertripping, to me.
(If you decide to go through with the age verification: the credit card method is probably the least invasive. Just be sure to unlink your card from the account afterwards.)
None of the tech companies want to do this. They're being forced by age verification laws.
Funny how they have huge successful lobbies for everything but this eh