The precise situation is that US states don’t have age verification laws right now but Texas tried to implement one on Jan 1 (Texas SB2420 - it got blocked by a judge as unconstitutional) and Louisiana and Utah have laws coming into effect soon.
So it’s both true that platforms are moving because of laws but there are no laws. The laws have been announced for many months. They aren’t trivial to implement so of course platforms are doing advance work. They might even want to test it before the laws come into effect, and see how badly it hurts them while they still have time to adjust and fiddle.
No company wants to do age verification IMO. There is no upside for them. Maybe if we actually prosecuted tech companies for harming children, there would be, but lolz.
Seems like the only way to bypass is using weird web-downloader sites which I presume use their own google accounts to get access which then it downloads onto their server.
Such as?
I’m in PA, USA and afiak there are no such laws anyways… this is just youtube being a dick
Edit: Anyways, I found one comment mentioned this web downloader thingy https://app.ytdown.to/en23/
And it works… slow af but works.
But it wont be long before they break it again… ugh
Ok then did YouTube implement the age checks globally then that sucks a lot
The precise situation is that US states don’t have age verification laws right now but Texas tried to implement one on Jan 1 (Texas SB2420 - it got blocked by a judge as unconstitutional) and Louisiana and Utah have laws coming into effect soon.
So it’s both true that platforms are moving because of laws but there are no laws. The laws have been announced for many months. They aren’t trivial to implement so of course platforms are doing advance work. They might even want to test it before the laws come into effect, and see how badly it hurts them while they still have time to adjust and fiddle.
No company wants to do age verification IMO. There is no upside for them. Maybe if we actually prosecuted tech companies for harming children, there would be, but lolz.
VPN with a double hop ending in France or Brazil usually works for me.
Tried both, Doesn’t work.
Seems like the only way to bypass is using weird web-downloader sites which I presume use their own google accounts to get access which then it downloads onto their server.
Just try different countries in your VPN, you’ll probably stumble on a few that work.