My account is old enough to drink in most of the world. They better not try and age verify me lol.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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I've lived on the internet before youtube, I can go back. I've even noticed I've been forcing myself to check out whats on youtube more and more over the past 5 years instead of wanting to check it out. So I kinda feel like I can drop it as a website I visit on its own and only consume it when specific posts link to it (like from lemmy). Next step after that is dropping it completely as video creators naturally move to different hosts.
Every company want to be a platform.. I just them to host videos I can watch embedded on lemmy or some other site.
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Freetube and pipepipe FTW!
Same with blue sky. They hit me up with an age check.
Never looked back.
They ask for login on my always-on VPN so Youtube doesn't exist for me.
If you use Android you can just export your subscriptions and import them into a third party app like Grayjay or NewPipe. There is no reason to use the YouTube app or even remain logged into an account, unless you absolutely need to watch age-gated material.
You can't watch age-restricted content on any Youtube client without a verified account because the server itsself looks for authentication.
Yes, that's what I just said.
I thought age-gated meant the contrary
I don't think so. Here's an example of it being used to mean "restricted to a certain age". I apologise for the confusion if I'm wrong, I am talking about the same thing as you.
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