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. It supports direct import of your saved playlists via Google Takeout ZIP file, subscriptions etc without needing a youtube account.
Also, remember the excellent TubeArchivist exists if you want even more control.
Here you go.
I…don’t know who that is. Should I be insulted, bemused or … scaroused?
Just someone who’s job is to fuck shit up and make a big fucking mess. (Viscera Cleanup Detail—game on steam). But he’s a old wrestler lol
I just went through this with ebay. No. Fuck you.
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Everybody needs to keep in mind: YouTube can’t kill themselves solely with this.
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I spent way too long trying to parse what’s clearly a fake barcode.
Bro…
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
I did this one day just because Albania was the first country that showed up alphabetically after the exit node in my home country started requiring age verification in many places. Always thought it was dumb luck, not because of anything specific about Albania, TIL. Based 🇦🇱
Only location I use for YT
Doesn’t work for Apple TV unfortunately
Doesn’t work for Apple TV unfortunately
You OP are a saint
Cheers big ears!
PS: I updated the fork overnight, so now you can download your Google Takeout data as a ZIP, import it, wait about 5 minutes, and voila - all your playlists are available locally. You can add to them locally, obviously, but those changes won’t sync back to YouTube. “Likes” and “Comments” obviously don’t work either.
Sorry, I couldn’t figure out how to do local avatars or progress indicator bar for the import (well, I mean, I could…I just couldn’t be arsed to spend another 4-5hrs doing it, then testing it etc etc).
Enjoy your pirate youtubez, yarr!
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. .
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.
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.
There’s a way to solve this, just look for “delete my account”
Probably have to verify yourself to reach that button.
Hard to find, you usually have to find an external link to it.
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
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.
It’s really bad for governments to force this sort of thing. If you really want age verification, this is the wrong way to do it. Teaching people to upload their ID to all sorts of websites enables identity theft, and age verification by a photo of your face is incredibly unreliable and easily faked.
If governments want age verification, they have to provide an online eID service that can do so anonymously.
It’s both the government and youtube. It’s pretty convenient these age verifications and the like also give them commercially valuable information on us to use no?
I second this, I’m based in UK but have my VPN to swiss
You at least have a reason to start considering deleting your account.
