YouTube expands age verification to more users. Several users are reporting on Reddit seeing new restrictions being applied to their accounts.

  • Tim_Bisley@piefed.social
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    13 days ago

    What alt front ends are there? How would you bypass the age check? Back in the day I didn’t have an account and you could get around it using third party sites but those don’t work anymore as far as I know.

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      13 days ago

      Invidious mainly, and that doesn’t use any YT accounts, it’s the equivalent of watching YT logged out.

      Also, Grayjay lets you log in through it but that probably doesn’t bypass the age check if you’re KYC’d.

      If you’re an active creator yourself though or even if you only have a few vids you made years ago that are still up, I’d set up PeerTube, Odysee, or both, and post those there while you still can, though.

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        13 days ago

        Presumably once YouTube finishes rolling out age verification, all these age restricted videos will require logging in to view them and anonymous front end apps will be locked out.