I’m not giving google my documents to confirm my identity, I’ll pass
Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬
Submitted 1 year ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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pewpew@feddit.it 1 year ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 year ago
As if they don’t already know everyones age by now from our collected data.
pewpew@feddit.it 1 year ago
They actually sent me an email one time that basically said: “We’ve changed some settings for you since yoi don’t look 18+”
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As if any of us are actually anyone ;D
unfinish_d@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, it’s definitely a good idea to make absolutely sure they have your confirmed identity. Some people actually care about privacy.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
You don’t have to do that, just make a blank account with fake info and out a fake birthday
pewpew@feddit.it 1 year ago
Maybe it’s a regional thing, they wanted some way to verify that I was really 18+. And Google requires a phone number if you want to create a new account, but I did make a couple more before this was a thing.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah but then you have to actually take the time to log in.
bighatchester@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Documents? I’ve never submitted any documents to login to any website before. Just give it a fake name with a made up birth date .
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Unfortunately Google requires a phone number, which is linked to my person verified by documents. So it’s not really private or anonymous. If you run a normal Android Google knows who you are anyway.
Azzu@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I gave them my documents with everything except the age blocked out with a black bar. It worked.
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Oh that is a bad development
piskertariot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Classic actions of a horrible company doing horrible things.
“It’s for the safety of the children”
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
I’m still mad at them for disabling the “add to watch later” button on video marked as “for kids”.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
YouTube soon to update terms of service to include “We must secure the existence of ads and a future for youtube-watching children”
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
i don’t understand why people don’t just use revanced and ublock?
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My main problem is that freetube perfectly remembers video position, without fail.
YouTube always failsbaguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’ve had the same problem, in my case it was that my adblocker was blocking the domains used to track video position, which are mildly tracking-ish in nature.
*.video-stats.l.google.com *.s.youtube.com
timestatic@feddit.org 1 year ago
I don’t like having a google account that has google tracking any video I watch. Also… the recommendations are more addicting and with Tubular (NewPipe fork) and Freetube I just imported my subs and follow them a bit. Never had to deal with the shitty youtube website once.
dai@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re worried about Google watching what videos you watch, presumably while signed into your Google account on an android phone?
Unless you’re running Graphene that level of abstraction isn’t much in their way.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Never got revanced to work on my phone (in spite of reading all the documentation and online advice, doing literally everything that was supposed to make it work short of jail breaking or changing to Graphene) and as for ublock, I use it but I prefer YouTube on a dedicated client to a browser tab since I usually have far too many of the latter open at a time…
Besides, unlike revanced, NewPipe worked perfectly out of the box and it seems like PipePipe still does, so…
Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll just leave this here
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
have you tried revanced manager? i typically just download revanced manager, pop over to apkmirror and get the recommended version (in this case 19.43.41), downloading the v8 package, going back into revanced manager and clicking storage, selecting the apk, and then letting it run. if you select the custom branding patch you don’t have to uninstall the original youtube.
And009@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I remember revanced stopped working and I ended up getting premium because it wouldn’t work on iPad anyway.
Are there any alternatives now?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
How does ravanced even work.
I mean, newpipe is just download install and it works.
Anyone have a tutorial?
(Also how would Revanced bypass age restricted if you need to sign in before youtube even sends the video over to you? Does Revanced use burner accounts like Aurora store?)
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think revanced uses a modified patch of youtube spoofing premium. I’m able to sign in using my regular account.
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I like revanced but it is still the closed source YouTube client and I still don’t know what it is doing. Plus you have to connect a Google account for some actions (like history).
TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Would you be willing to share what you’re using? Either a response or a DM
viking@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Does revanced come with sponsorblock?
helloyanis@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Yes, it does!
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
youtube-dl won’t even download them now.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
You can, if you pass cookies from your browser to the command line. The easiest way is to specify your browser, e.g.
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefoxdaggermoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t have an account so that probably won’t work. Thanks though!
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Since when?
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Both newpipe and libretube stopped working for me. I’m now using grayjay
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
YouTube ReVanced still works phenomenally.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Weird, since yesterday revanced doesn’t seem to work anymore for me so I went back to newpipe.
ItsYourBoyHalo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is weird… Where did you get your APK? From F-Droid or their website? The F-Droid version is always one or two versions behind the main repo.
Try updating to the latest version via their website/GitHub.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I get it from fdroid. I might follow your advice and get it from github. I thought fdroid follows GitHub
Chewget@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Newpipe hasn’t stopped working… If it errors, just close the video and refresh your VPN
Bysmuth@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’m using a fork called pipepipe. It has worked pretty well for me so far and has some extra features including sponsorblock
codapine@lemm.ee 11 months ago
+1 for PipePipe! I love it and it Just Works®. Quick updates too.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve been using a fork called Tubular too. When I meant newpipe, I referred to tubular as well
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I try to use YT as little as possible these days. Used to stream a lot of indie music, not talking indie radio guitarists no I mean the REAL indie basement dwellers, but since YT took away play-all buttons I moved to SoundCloud. Just type in a song you know in the genre you want and let it autoplay.
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If you dig indie music from basement dwellers check out funkwhale sometime, we are building the fediverse version of grooveshark.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well the first roadbump you’ll run into is that I’ve never heard of grooveshark. Power to you, those on the Fediverse who persevere will benefit immensely during these early adoption years.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Protect the children: “Hey kids, have you heard about raid shadow legends? Why not go borrow mum’s credit card because it’s free.”
Fun insider fact - the gambling industry learned things from that game.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 11 months ago
Tell me more
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Use PipePipe
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I had this happen recently with Freetube and the, very strangely, age restricted new trailer for a Darktide update. Hope the big brains figure out a work around. Even invidious fallback wouldn’t play it.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
there’s userscripts you can get for adguard for windows and tampermonkey that allow you to watch age-restricted stuff without being signed in.
Why can’t invidious and piped do that?
yamanii@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OP is a screenshot from newpipe, they are very rigid on adding those things, that’s why you need to download other forks to get sponsorblock for example.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Have you tried Grayjay? Grayjay gets updates quickly and so I rarely see the issue.
cmhe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just FYI. Grayjay is only source available, but not open source like newpipe and its forks.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think greyjay is the best YouTube app. I gave up on Newpipe the moment Firefox for Android reenabled extension support. I didn’t like the fact that the app needed a fork just for Sponsor block support.
cmhe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, with newpipes forks are possible in order to implement controversial features, with Grayjay they are unlikely because of its non-open-source license.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
The same way porn sites have worked since the 90s. Honor system.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe you should just pay instead of stealing from creators.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Youtube made 8.9 billion last quarter in ad revenue. That’s almost 100 million a day.
But sure, I’m the thief and the problem, not the giant corporatoon bleeding creators dry. What a joke.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you offering a cheaper way or more payout? Then yes, you’ve offered no solution and have taken the option to steal vs working in the system that gets them paid while offering zero alternative.
Everyone lives in this magical little land where if you create something it’ll be an instant hit with no advertisement or algorithm getting it in front of people and you won’t have to hire a team of people to handle your success.
x1gma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, the problem are definitely the few percent of people using ad blockers, but absolutely not the corpos spewing out a few cents while watching creators fight against each other and the algorithm ™️ from their second yacht they bought this week.
Keep bootlicking, fool.
bighatchester@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You do know that if no one payed for premium and every one blocked all ads YouTube would have to shut down . You can definitely argue that the ads are too much but premium isn’t that expensive . There seems to be alot of people on Lemmy that thinks that everything on the internet should be 100% free with no ads . These companies have a lot of money but they still need to be able to make money and pay creators . Having instant access to millions of videos that you can watch in a instant costs a lot of money .
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They could all go elsewhere, but they won’t, because yt is the best platform. Lots of anger and copium in this thread.
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Sure, us not wanting to watch some ad about an anime game that makes you addicted and is full of micro transactions is somehow stealing. Are you out of your mind?
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep you are stealing. Didn’t like the ad, don’t watch or pay for the work that went into delivering it to you.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It happens on Youtube Music on the web also.
I don’t sign in on my work computer because last time I paid for food my Google account hijacked my chrome browser.
So now I simply can’t listen to whole albums because some songs are age restricted
Im_old@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s the video? Curious is piped has the same issue
vga@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
How do you think age-restricted videos could work without logging in?
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
9xbuddy works fine to download age-restricted videos. It’s probably not FOSS, though.
jinwk00@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Consider moving to LibreTube of Clipious, got annoyed as well
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My most mildly infuriating thing with freetube is that the new player is not aligned with the edges of the video, I reported it initially cause I thought it was a bug
Mwa@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Time to use my old yt account.
3nthusiast@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Is it possible to connect google account via newpipe and watch it?
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We need a newer pipe
Senseless@feddit.org 1 year ago
new new pipe
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“God dammit Jian Yang!”
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Nude pipe?
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nintendo NEW Nintendo Newpipe