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[-] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Good thing I don't use YouTube anymore because they block me for using an ad blocker even though it doesn't do much on YouTube since they switched to serving ads natively.

[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

So it's off to PeerTube then, I guess? People could post the same video on both (yt and pt), and then on yt write something like "why not watch this on PeerTube instead?" although it'd probably get taken down.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago
[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I’m surprised the toy market & microtransaction industries are not aggressively fighting this. YouTube has been the primary way for them to reach kids for the past decade.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago
[-] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Floppies are superior, fite me on that

[-] marlowe221@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

My YouTube account is old enough to vote at this point…

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

age is a just a cover for controlling what you can see akin to "won't somebody please think about the children!!!"

[-] iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago

As others have reported, YouTube doesn't give a shit about account age. It's based on what you watch.

[-] zen_killoran@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I’ll be waiting, you can only check the age of my eggs

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

How old are your eggs?

[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

FYI the last easy setup way to fix Youtube is Invidious or Pipepipe (Android app) with one of the main VPNs providing service through Thailand, there may be other regions. I won't explain the cooler options because only I deserve them. I mostly use the fire and forget method of sending it to Seal (YTDL app). Anyways when they finally seal it off they will be doing us a favor

Honestly, screw them. We went throught the 90s with no YT and everyone was happier.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 11 points 1 day ago

What is special about a Thailand vpn endpoint?

[-] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

Sick, you can check my elderly face from thispersondoesntexist

[-] m__a__b@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

For an excellent, and hilarious, take on this, check out Venus Theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7INRHrObI

[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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