Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube (www.techdirt.com)

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[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Will anonymous access still be allowed?

To YouTube? Yes. The legislation requires social media companies to ensure people under the age of 16 do not have accounts. It does not prevent people under the age of 16 from accessing these social media platforms whilst logged out. For something like Facebook or Instagram, which rarely work unless logged in, this will have a significant impact, but for YouTube it makes barely any difference. I haven't used YouTube logged in for a very long time and there is very little that is off-limits, beyond highly graphic content, so this is a far cry from the "ban" it has been hysterically portrayed as in the media.

The search engine thing is a different piece of legislation I believe, but it also does not require you to be logged into an account to perform web searches. You will still be able to use Google and Bing with default safety settings enabled.

[-] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

I’m going to lose access to my playlists and have a hard time finding rare versions again or song titles that are hard to search.

Random things also can get flagged as mature

[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago

Video playlists? You can export those outside of YouTube. I use Grayjay so exported all my subscriptions and playlists a long time ago (hence why I no longer watch through an account).

[-] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

Cool thanks. I’ll check it out

[-] dockedatthewrongworf@aussie.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

I personally use a mix of grayjay and revanced. Grayjay is missing a few QoL features like a sleep timer. You can always make a burner account for revanced if you want to keep to a single app but honestly I find it works fine when I use it!