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Some time ago Google made some changes to age verification, and now you can't watch age restricted videos without logging in, which means you can't watch them u
by elric 5y ago
Some time ago Google made some changes to age verification, and now you can't watch age restricted videos without logging in, which means you can't watch them using NewPipe. It also means you can't watch them without handing over your phone number to Google, because it seems it's no longer possible to create a YT account without a phone number.
This whole thing makes NewPipe a lot less useful than it used to be.
- pmontra 5y agoI don't log in into YouTube, even on phone, so NewPipe was an improvement for me. I can bookmark videos and subscribe channels in the app. I could do that with bookmarks in the browser but this is more convenient.
- Pooge 5y agoInstead of using bookmarks, you could subscribe via RSS. Sometimes the link is not easily found, except if you use a reader that will "auto-find" the URI for you (I use Brook [1]). [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-reader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...
- johnisgood 5y agoOn top of all this, being logged in is not enough. I just checked right now. You have to verify yourself using either a credit card, or submitting an image of a valid ID, such as your driver's license or passport (I have neither, FWIW). NO THANKS. I cannot tell you just how much I hate this kind of bullshit. This is becoming increasingly common. Call me old and grumpy, but I would much prefer to go back 10-20 years. The web was a symbol of freedom, decentralization, and so forth. Now we have major websites that you can count on one hand that makes up the Internet. Along with their fucking shitty, severely restricting or limiting systems. On the other hand, they might be successful in reducing my Internet consumption. :)
- ikt 5y ago> Call me old and grumpy, but I would much prefer to go back 10-20 years. The web was a symbol of freedom, decentralization, and so forth. Strange that no one has brought up hosting a peertube instance
- saurik 5y agoFWIW, I feel like this--age verification for age restricted videos--is probably caused by either a regulation that already happened or a regulation that was threatened and which Google felt safer to define the boundaries of for themselves (not that I think that often leads to sane outcomes).
- Mindwipe 5y agoIt is, it's a requirement of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive in the EU, and in particular the UK and Irish regulators implementations of it. Especially the Irish one, since YouTube EMEA is based in Ireland and effectively make the regulatory decisions for the entire EU under the AVMS. I feel like we all desperately took our eye off the ball when that was passed.
- johnisgood 5y agoYou are right. They are too big, and are at the crosshair of the Government. They must obey. I am pretty much against both in these cases, to be honest.
- jjbinx007 5y agoTwitter won't let you browse more than a handful of tweets before blocking the service demanding you login. I was trying to read an article about gpt-3 and the author had decided to embed tweets with pictures of text on, so not only could I not read the text without right-clicking the image to view on its own then zooming and panning but after a while Twitter would just prevent me from reading any further without logging in. Twitter won't let you create an account without a phone number and, like most services that want to harvest your data like a Dementor from Harry Potter, they want to push you towards an app. Tiktok is pretty hostile towards desktop users too. I refuse to install it on my mobile and why should I anyway? And then there's the many iot devices that don't give you an interface at all if you don't have a phone. Ridiculous.
- sebow 5y agoUnless things changed in the past year or so, i remember creating a google account without a phone number.However you might be right, because they recently stated they want to start forcing people info 2FA.What is more interesting(especially for people who don't understand how google operates behind the scenes) is that the markers they use for requiring phone numbers/id verification/etc is to train their bot detection.I remember about 2 years ago,on a 10yrs+ old google account, I had recently been required to verify my age(through an ID) for a video which did not require my age verification on a dummy account which was about 2 years old(so very new by comparison). They might have introduced now mandatory age verification on per-video instead of per-account basis, but the stages they use are very questionable.Besides, YT is such an unusable platform these days one has to use NP/Vanced to have the same experience of youtube pre-2012, and still: back then there was less spam and phishing going on.
- tentacleuno 5y ago> Unless things changed in the past year or so, i remember creating a google account without a phone number. I believe you can create a Google account without a phone number by setting it up on Android's (stock ROM) setup screen. This won't bypass YouTube's nagging though, sadly.
- ajvs 5y agoPiped can bypass age restriction (eg https://piped.kavin.rocks https://piped.kavin.rocks instance), it's the new Invidious YouTube FOSS frontend alternative.
- xchip 5y agoYou must be devastated
- Pooge 5y agoIf you drag'n'drop the URI in mpv [1], you can bypass the age restriction. Not convenient, but if you need it it's very useful. [1]: https://mpv.io/ https://mpv.io/
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- account42 5y agoOr use an extension to make this more convenient: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-to-mpv-player/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-to-mpv-p... Personally, I much prefer playing all videos in an external mpv window anyway.
- taneq 5y ago*The whole thing makes YouTube a lot less useful than it used to be
- 2ion 5y agoTheir loss. What kind of videos are age-restricted anyway?
- BizarroLand 5y agoVideos with nudity, violence, or excessive foul language, or videos that have self-flagged as such.
- SeanSpearo 5y agoYou forgot that invidious still lets you watch videos age blocked fine. Gokunaru for instance just made a q & a a few days ago and I watched it on invidious
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoNewPipe can play age-restricted videos. I just tested it myself and played an age-restricted video on NewPipe.
- kzrdude 5y agoI haven't done the age verification in my youtube account, so I avoid those videos too and I don't think there are so many of them fortunately. The more established channels will avoid it to not lose viewers.
- rjsw 5y agoAre you sure? The yt-dlp package uses the Android API on YouTube and it can download age restricted videos.
- hujni 5y agoGoogle, Apple, Microsoft, et al, keep trying to convince us to stop using their services.
- i13e 5y agoActually there is a toggle in the settings (under content) to bypass this, seems like this is an issue that Piped avoids as well which I wholehearted recommend for desktop or browser use.
- MonaroVXR 5y agoHow does age restriction work? I wanted to watch a video (I forgot which one and no, it was a normal video.) But I got an age verification in my face. I'm 27 years old.
- mastazi 5y agoFreetube can play age restricted videos (it has worked for me so far). I'm not sure how they do it, I suspect it has to do with the Invidious API somehow.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoNewPipe has no support for resuming interrputed downloads. Overrite only. This makes NewPipe inferior to downloading from the command line.