Last week I tried to watch the “Shut the Fuck Up PSA” from the National Lawyers Guild, and it was age blocked. I did try to log in, but now you have to VERIFY your age too (obviously I clicked off that shit).

But honestly, alternative frontends like Freetube and yt-dlp might not make the cut anymore:

Mpv crashed, and Invidious instances keep saying “video may not be age appropriate”

Edit: My state is soon to perform age verification on social media sites, so this is probably the cause. I’ll just have to VPN to other states or countries until VPNs fail/are blocked.

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    2 days ago

    Seems more like unecessary corpo powertripping, to me.

    None of the tech companies want to do this. They’re being forced by age verification laws.