like they know how old you are... my account is from a burner email address
Posted on 09/22/2020 4:00:50 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty
YouTube is rolling out more artificial intelligence-powered technology to catch more videos that may require age restrictions, meaning more viewers will be asked to sign into their accounts to verify their age before watching.
(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...
It’s also to better track you.
I don’t have a Google login and don’t want one.
What does it mean? YouTube can say a video showing Antifa/rioting/etc. is not appropriate for kids and age-restrict it.
You have to be subscribed to the channel and log into YouTube to watch it. It won’t show on the YouTube homepage.
like they know how old you are... my account is from a burner email address
Since I will not have a YouTube (and hence Google) account, I won’t be watching those videos.
“I don’t have a Google login and don’t want one.”
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Don’t need one to watch the “you must login” videos:
http://www.nsfwyoutube.com
“like they know how old you are... my account is from a burner email address”
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Yeah, it’s a joke. Even 7 year olds know how to get by it with no problem at all.
BINGO
You can use Invidio.us to get around it.
100%
It is so sad. I was a late comer to YouTube, but when I finally broke down and started watching I came in at the last hurrah and really enjoyed listening to the different point of views on a variety of subjects. You could play one and let it automatically select videos and have a great time all night. Then, one by one channels got hidden or outright banned. Or just directed to who they wanted me to watch. At first dozens of quirky channels vanished overnight, then they started directing to channels no matter what your settings were. For example, watch a single interesting sounding Tim Pool video and you would get 48 hours of continuous Joe Rogan in your queue. Then when Joe Rogan fell out of favor because he said he won’t vote for someone who was senile, they began pushing Fox News at volume 11. I even used software to ban channels like Rogan outright, and that software may have been vapor ware for all its effectiveness. You Tube was forcing me to distract from my work or sleep and manually choose something else even though my preferences were quite clear that I didn’t want Joe Rogan as opposed to say...thousands of other content creators.
As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down.
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Nice idea, though.
BitChute
They do have a list of alternatives:
invidious.snopyta.org
invidiou.site
vid.mint.lgbt
invidious.ggc-project.de
yewtu.be
invidious.xyz
invidious.tube
invidious.site
Perfectly safe educational videos from YouTube channels like PragerU have been age restricted in order to prevent kids from getting information counter to their Marxist training.
Yes it is good to protect kids from adult content, but not to the point where they are being denied alternative views to the progressive hive mind.
Ok, let me give an example.
Let’s say I like to watch hunting videos. Or target shooting. When they’re deemed age-restricted, you have to be subscribed to the channel to see it. And they won’t get advertisers which their business might be making YouTube videos. If they don’t make money, they won’t put up videos.
If a video is age-restricted, it won’t show up as a suggestion on the YouTube front page, even though I watch similar videos.
clues for finding the real interesting YouTube channels that normally don’t show up in the Que.....every channel has a place that the person posting videos can post channels they like....explore those channels....also turn off cue so videos don’t immediately go to a recommended video when the video you look at ends. there will be a list of videos under that video that use to be the ones that would play instead of the approved one fed to you today.....explore those videos....
Why not just subscribe to the creator’s page directly? I mean, you don’t need to go to the front page and hope something’s listed.
For example, you’d jut bookmark this page (if you were interested in the topic), instead of bothering with the front page at all - the newest videos are at top;
https://www.youtube.com/c/nssforg/videos
Or you could do a search on whatever the topic, with the newest ones again at top:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=target+shooting&sp=CAI%253D
Pick the ones you want to watch and use the link I gave at nsfwyoutube.com to view them.
Or have you already tried that and it didn’t work out?
As for other avenues, yes it's possible. But how many average people know about them? I'm looking at a Steve Turley video about Jimmy Kimmel and the Emmys right now. On YouTube, the video has 63,968 views thus far. He's got 564,000 followers. On Bitchute, the same video has received 687 views and his channel has 16,591 subscribers. How much information would get out if only Bitchute was available?
I have subscribed to ones I’m interested in. Let’s say I’m subscribed to Mark Levin’s channel. Because of that, YouTube recommends I might like Steve Turley’s channel because it has similar content. If Steve Turley’s videos are age-restricted, then YouTube won’t recommend them on the front page.
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