They ask for login on my always-on VPN so Youtube doesn't exist for me.
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!
My account is old enough to drink in most of the world. They better not try and age verify me lol.
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Same with blue sky. They hit me up with an age check.
Never looked back.
Just curious why is this entire thing even in the Android community? This is a privacy topic or a YouTube topic etc. There's nothing about it that ties it to Android. Can we keep stuff like this out? It's just one more topic that devolves into politics, scare speculation etc. Just read the comment threads if you need to see.
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There's really ~~4~~ 5 spaces in the main internet:
- the public corporate web (YouTube, Facebook, twitter, Reddit, etc)
- the private corporate web (requires login to view any content, Software as a Service, Cloud Apps, etc)
- the public web (Wikimedia, Wikia, Archive.org)
- the indie web / small web
- private web - inaccessible except through login or through VPN or TOR/Onion, but not corporate (media servers, email servers, darkweb, file servers)
And currently the main issue is that the corporate web is intentionally trying to strangle the other spaces on the web.
But there are some movements against it, https://indieweb.org/ and https://neocities.com/ and https://smallweb.cc/
Edit: missed one of the spaces
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I'm slowly making peace with the thought of losing the internet as it is. Maybe it'll become something broken you wade into from time to time, some sort of blinking, blabbering wasteland to scavenge valid, valuable information from and return to your oasis. Some people will stay trapped in there forever, but it's useless to try to communicate with them.
Clippy stage 2: revive many aspects of the old web
We can still pass flash drives around, at least until ID requirements come to file systems, ports, and peripherals.
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Friendly reminder that Tampermonkey has a script for this:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/521089-youtube-age-restriction-bypass-stealth-version
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It'll be super weird to pirate free youtube videos, but I'll fuckin' do it.
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Imagine YouTube telling you to submit ID to prove that your 20 year old account is 18+ lmao
Also, imagine living in a country pretending that it's amazing while they treat their citizens like they do... United States of North Korea vibes
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Between the age of my account and the fact I pay for premium, if they ever ask for ID they can go fuck themselves and I'll go back to as blockers and fresh accounts
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Gotta support alternatives such as Peertube, Nebula.. so there are nice places to find videos as YouTube becomes worse and worse.
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