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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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[–] 9 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Presumably once YouTube finishes rolling out age verification, all these age restricted videos will require logging in to view them and anonymous front end apps will be locked out.

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

    Age-gated vids have been login-walled for a while now, non-age-gated stuff is still viewable while logged out and through alt front-ends, for now.

    I won't put it past Google to fully login-wall YT at some point in the future though, or even worse, put DRM on it so that it's only watchable through Chrome on Android, or Chrome or Edge on Windows, and non-Android and non-Windows OSes, and non-Chrome/Edge browsers are blocked, as well as alt front-ends and downloaders, and even mirroring to competing platforms.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Not unless they're complete boneheads (which, admittedly, is not impossible). If they do that, they effectively lose embed-video-in-external-sites functionality, and that might just be enough for unpaid content creators to dump the platform en masse and cause their effective monopoly to crumble. The content creators who are actually making decent money may never leave entirely, but if another viable platform comes into existence, I bet most of them would mirror to it.

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