I’ve been having some weird issues over the last few days with not being able to search for things in YouTube when I’m logged in via SmartTube account.
So I decided to try accessing it directly. Well guess what? It looks like YouTube now requires age verification in AU.
Sorry Google… I’m not uploading my passport, drivers licence or govt id to watch your shit. I am however now very incentivized to use Tube archivist and Jellyfin, plus cron job to scrape your shit with gleeful abandon.
EDIT: Rather than bitching about it, I did something and made Smarttube work without a google account. If that floats your boat, have at it
Bro…
“Ahí no se nos perdió nada” --Puerto Rican saying Nothing of value was lost there. – rough translation.
Switch to NewPipe/WizeStream or FreeTube. Freetube allows for better subscription organization.
Buy frankly, I’m interested in moving to Peertube altogether
Use a VPN with an exit node in Albania. Youtube cannot force a signin or ads due to Albanian laws.
I use it daily. Try it. It works
Rather than bitching about it, I did something and made Smarttube work without a google account. If that floats your boat, have at it.
To those of you advocating VPN…eat while the eating is good. .
It’s not YouTube it’s your government. Rage at the correct thing.
Also just use VPN and set the location to Switzerland or smth.
I second this, I’m based in UK but have my VPN to swiss
People just need to stop using American Big Tech bullshit & go with better alternatives.
“People” unfortunately are still captured by existing systems. As much as I like Curiosity, Odysee, PeerTube etc if the content is locked into Youtube, then we need to build bridges, not walls.
I signed to for Nebula last night. It’s only built 20-30 minute form content but i think they did a nice job with the front end.
Yes let’s send our id cards to an american big tech corporation, what could possibly go wrong there.
the way people are yawning at this – including this community – makes you wonder why the libertarians among us are cool w it.
Because libertarians secretly like sucking the cock of daddy big tech
I’m pretty sure my original Google account is over 18 years old. How is that not considered proof of age?
Because its never been about proving ones age.
Yeah that part is bullshit…
Always a bit amusing of steam sometimes still requiring me to enter my birthday on some store pages, when my steam account is 23 years old
Ditto. And, apparently, no.
Here it’s not that bad but it started to ask me to prove I’m not a bot by signing-in. Usually it was passable by when the IP changes by retstarting the modem but it’s not for a couple days now.
Edit: This means embedded videos are not public anymore. They finally did it. Great news for many sites! /s
Oh, no! A company in my country is following the laws of my country! Bastards…
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choose how to verify your age
use your credit card
huh? why credit card?
You can only get a credit card if your 18+, and therefore proves your age. A debit card does not do this since a minor can have a debit card
Many adults don’t have one either. I’m in my 30s, got a house. Never had or wanted a credit card. Most people I know don’t have one, although a lot of people nationally do have one there are also lots without.
To the American busy typing away, no. I don’t need one. Go away.
Same, I’m glad to see others like me here. Upper 30s, never had a credit card, never needed one, don’t want one, don’t care to hear arguments about how wrong I am for this choice. School loans built up a credit history for me, and after that whole ordeal I’m more certain than ever that I’d prefer to pay with money I actually have, than rely on money I could theoretically earn in the future.
Don’t even have loans, literally only the mortgage. Even that I don’t like but its the only way to get a house really. Hopefully going to pay it off decades early, should be able to with the rate I am saving currently if my partner does the same.
Crazy that I am doing that on £29k though.
Good that are other forms, then.
Except I had a credit card when I was a minor, and used it to verify my age everywhere
This is different in different countries.
Never owned a credit card, don’t plan to.
Why indeed.
Logically, because kids would be too young to have a credit card (In theory).
A static image doesn’t bypass this. Vendors want a real-time selfie–access to a internet-connected camera responding to prompts in real-time, such as “turn your head to the right,” or “open and close your mouth”. It would be trivial on a libre-system to send it a simulated-feed of a puppet-ed prop in such a way that would be indistinguishable from a real human head–if you had capable hardware. This is what intelligence agencies do now, but it’s possible on high-end consumer hardware too. For the modest computer user it would be viable to feed it a simplified–but still meeting the criteria of a “face” as deemed by the computer–puppet, akin to what vtubers use. That’s on a libre-system. A system that obeys the user and that can not be tolerated, because users lie.
They give you a QR code to scan with a mobile-computer, because mobile-computers are the least free of all computers. The majority of mobile-computers are Google’s Android mobile-computer. Google redirects you to a computer that is entirely controlled by… Google. Surprise!
The boot-licking continues. This isn’t something forced on Google by authoritarian, nanny-state governments. This is Google’s will. Google is an authoritarian corporation that profits via surveillance-capitalism. Keep licking their boots and defending them. How dumb can you be?
Google wants to verify your ID.
Google redirects you to a Google Android slave-computer via a QR code, precisely because there’s too much freedom on traditional desktop-computers and outputs can be trivially simulated.
Oh, poor Google for…
…what? Collecting even more data about internet users? This is their bread and butter: surveillance-capitalism.
The unique thing about the Australian-context is that the liberal party began a project: to create a facial-recognition system that would underpin a virtual market of “identity providers”. From my perspective this is fraud, because underneath each identity provider was this governmental-department that would send a “yes” or “no” in response to a query: does this face belong to Johe Bloe. Their system doesn’t even deserve a critique because it’s from the party of blatant grifters and looters, but it’s now what we have and things don’t just disappear, especially when it’s a system that’s been in the works for decades and with bipartisan ‘support’.
Google is an upstanding corporate-citizen providing identity services in a free-market. It’s just capitalism, folks.
Like usual the morons will loudly blame Labor when the fruits of the liberal party turn rotten. The wider, global context is rising fascism which creates an environment where obeying remote prompts to wiggle your tongue and open and close your mouth is deemed ‘expected’ behaviour when all you want to do is watch cat videos on the internet.
Liberate your computers. Hack your mobile-computers and send dummie feeds. It only gets harder from here on. Push back now. It’s rather easy too: don’t use Google. Actively avoid it.
You can trick it easily for now. I haven’t because I worry it gives the system more legitimacy than it deserves. No, not doing it at all. Closing your site and going somewhere else.
So we got to torrent our YouTube videos soon? EU is pushing for this too
Probably. I’m going to fork Smarttube and set it up so it works with local user account, keeps playlists local and just accesses youtube for the vids. PipePipe already does that…it just has a horrible 10 foot UI for TVs. The only thing that breaks smarttube right now is needing Google account. So, I will rip that out.
Ultimately tho…yeah, p2p (peertube) might end up the way to go.
I used this for discord.
Not functional anymore by the way.
