I’m asking because I just had to verify my age thanks to YouTube requiring me to watch a video that was age restricted.
Haven’t interacted with anything forcing it yet.
I refuse.
I don’t use services that ask me to prove my age, beyond a drop-down date picker, in which case I was born in 1969.
I always pick Jan 1 1970
An epoch baby!
On April 20, right ?
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Focked?
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Use Newpipe if your are on mobile, it is from the fdroid store. No need to login to watch YouTube
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Hmm, I haven’t encountered that yet. Does the anonymous google login via stuff like the aurora store and microg still work?
Hasn’t yet.
Is becoming, yes. There are still plenty of opportunities to stop it provided that the democratic process remains somewhat functional and governments have not gone into “we are the rulers, we decide whatever we want, screw the will of the people” mode yet.
I don’t have the answer on how far on the path toward that aforementioned mode we are. :(
Hello Nebula
you just did your part to normalize it.
I have done it 2-3 times in my life. Not in the last five years or so. Once it was when mail-ordering some chemical that really should not be in a child’s hands. The other occasions I can’t remember exactly.
The recent development is thoroughly fake.
Therefore yes, I think it will be the new normal :-(
you can ignore those. But services require ID/ facial scans is becoming more pervasive, and it only serves one thing surveillance.
Why are you not using a VPN?
But don’t you still have to pass various websites’ internal checks in order to access their protected NSFW content?
A VPN far as I know is useful for avoiding regional restrictions when it comes to content viewing.
No. Just exit to a country/state that doesn’t require age checks. Porn sites are not wasting any more effort than they have to checking IDs in places that don’t require it
Yes, but I’m not just talking about porn, and I do think some sites enforce age checks regardless of local or international law.
But… that’s just an impression, and I haven’t done anything remotely like a full test, so far.
(see the sibling comment)
Depends on how the site implements things. Age verification can be regardless of region, or it can just be for specific regions. This holds true for pretty much any feature.
YouTube pretty reliably blocks VPNs. The solution is to either not use their service, or accept the fact you can’t view some videos, and move on.
I’ve never had youtube block my VPN. Is they just something they only do on chrome or have I just been lucky so far?
They don’t block it for logged in users yet, just like reddit, but if you are logged out and have no cookies then they will block the playback for known VPN IPs.
youtube doesnt block vpn unless its one of the free crappy ones, reddit however will block vpns though.
I suppose it’s possible you’re flying under the radar, if you’re not using a large-ish VPN provider.
I’d also be checking for DNS leaks, out of paranoia.
Not really. At least with Proton, I can just change the exit and it’ll work.
That said, I can’t be bothered to do that most of the time. I’m not missing anything by not watching YouTube videos.
Weird. For me it appears like in the last ~wk they’ve dropped the hard block, and are now using captcha.
It’s entirely possible I’m getting caught up in some A/B testing, because of my exits of choosing.
Mullvad and also never had an issue with YT
Not for me it fucking hasn’t.
And won’t.
… I just had to verify my age …
No you did not. You chose to do so.
I have not used WhatsApp in 10+ years, Windows in 4+ years, Google services in 2+ years.
It is a choice, stop lying to yourself about having to accept things.
It doesn’t have to be. While the real issue is like all surveillance, it will get pushed back against and then repackaged later as a “new” idea again.
We’ve been doing this song and dance since the Clipper Chips.
Once the politicians start realizing they cannot legislate math and that they are also at risk under these systems, we’ll see bigger pushback to them again.
It only becomes normalized if we continue using those services… If these co’s saw a meaurable reduction in engagement after implenting these rules they would back peddle. The almighty dollar is king afterall.
The problem is they are trying and basically succeeding in age verifying the o/s. The only choice at that point is to never go online or use an electronic device again. Not sure how that works
