Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026?

• GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  VPN with a double hop ending in France or Brazil usually works for me.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• sompreno@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ok then did YouTube implement the age checks globally then that sucks a lot

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The precise situation is that US states don’t have age verification laws right now but Texas tried to implement on on Jan 1 (it got blocked by a judge as u co stititional) and Louisiana and Utah have laws coming into effect soon.

    So it’s both true that there are no laws but platforms are moving because of laws. The laws have been announced for many months. They aren’t trivial to implement so of course they are doing advance work. They might even want to test it and see how badly it hurts them.

    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.

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just try different countries in your VPN, you’ll probably stumble on a few that work.

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