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YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users (www.androidheadlines.com)
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YouTube expands age verification to more users. Several users are reporting on Reddit seeing new restrictions being applied to their accounts.

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[+] -8 points 1 year ago (44 children)

I don't understand why people are so afraid to ditch YouTube

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (30 children)

    A lot of creators I watch are YouTube exclusive with their content.

    If they were on Peertube, I'd delete YouTube in a heartbeat.

    But I also understand that a lot of them make their living off ad revenue, so I don't blame them for staying.

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  • [+] -21 points 1 year ago (28 children)

    Why commit to them instead of finding alternative creators on a different platform?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Fine. Name alternatives for what YouTube is mostly used for and I'll be the first to take your advise.

    We are talking vlogs on huge amounts of topics, product reviews and unboxings, reaction videos, how-to tutorials, gaming videos (walkthroughs, live streams, etc.), ASMR and relaxation content, educational and explainer videos for science, history and finance... and so on.

    There's simply no true alternative.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What are you into?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The above.

    My circle of family, friends and others will extend the list to music videos, health care (mental health and wellness, for example), the shorts, movie trailers, even Hallmark movies.

    There is no platform other than YouTube that combines all this crazy amount of content.

    There's PeerTube with notoriously difficult onboarding for the average user and limited content, there's Loops with extremely limited content.. I really wish it were different.

    Maybe one day existing platforms will rise. Looking at you, VIMEO, Kick, DailyMotion, DTube...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    Name one

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    What are you into?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Doesn't matter. Name a single FREE alternative to YouTube with content worth watching.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Depends on the content you're wanting to watch.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    See, you can't even just name something. Because it doesn't exist.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    So you're looking for a service that spoon feeds you non-specific videos?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Do you have no opinions yourself? I don't care what's on it; what alternatives do you think exist?

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I can give you the alternative if you tell me what you want to watch?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Videos.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Plenty of videos on loops, peertube, archive sites, libraries, and public domain sites

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Photography, Star trek, fountain pens

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Photography, check out pixelfed

    Star trek, check out https://www.trekbbs.com/

    Fountain pens, check out https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Forums like the fountain pen one and and the photography one you suggested are a Reddit replacement. However, sometimes you want to watch a video though. So they're not good YouTube replacements in my opinion.

    Pixelfed is great as an Instagram replacement, but again no videos.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    If you want to transfer every video to a different service, be my guest.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    I mean, it gives you tools to export your videos out.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Cool. You should probably get started. There's a lot of videos.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    I don't have any youtube videos to export. Do you want me to export yours?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    And everyone else's. People don't go elsewhere because the creators they like are on YouTube. Speaking as someone with Peertube and Nebula.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well we can start looking for creators that respect privacy and freedom of their viewers, ig

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    You're asking them to put their livelihood on the line for your privacy. They're gonna choose the thing that pays their bills every time.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    No, what Im saying is a service that is as centralized and pervasive as youtube should not be the ones who determine if you should be allowed to watch a video or not. They are inserting themselves between you and your content creator and assessing your entire identity. They, a for-profit, data-hoarding, facist financier, corporate advertising conglomerate will have collected the very personal details of your entire individual life, and will amass everything they have on you to declare if you are able to watch a 10 minute video.

    THAT is what we should not have. But maybe thats just me.

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