From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:17:19 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Now Google is giving me age verification grief. Signing in is no longer >>>sufficient.

Has anyone found a work around?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1333913 "If you meet the
minimum age requirements, you can use a government ID or credit card to >>verify your age."

Oh yeah, give them your ID or credit card. Geez, why not a blood and
urine sample, too, and your first born.

Exactly. They also offered to let me photography my face to submt that.

. . .

Since 2020, Youtube was required to comply with the COP law that
required Youtube authors to mark their videos as made for kids, or not. >>Marking your YT video as kid appropriate means losing some features:
cannot be added to playlists, no comments.

I didn't know; thanks

Of course, you could NOT login into Google/Youtube which means they
don't know who is watching their videos. Alas, that means you also
won't be known as an adult by their analytics AI, and you can't watch >>age-restricted videos.

I don't log in unless required, and then use an account just for
watching YouTube videos with search and watch history turned off. When
not logged in, I leave search and watch history turned on. The account I
use when logged in doesn't uniquely identify me and uses a publicly-accessible mailbox. I really don't want to watch these videos
logged in with a personal accunt.

. . .

I'm using LMDE7 and the latest Firefox 147.0.1 breaks youtube video
playback. I've reverted back to Firefox 146.0 and all the video's play properly. I paused any updates to firefox.
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:24:13 -0000 (UTC), Killadebug wrote:

I'm using LMDE7 and the latest Firefox 147.0.1 breaks youtube video
playback.

Just tried 147.0.1 under Debian Unstable (latest upgrade today), and
it played a video just fine.
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:15:55 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:24:13 -0000 (UTC), Killadebug wrote:

I'm using LMDE7 and the latest Firefox 147.0.1 breaks youtube video
playback.

Just tried 147.0.1 under Debian Unstable (latest upgrade today), and it played a video just fine.

147.0.1 worked for about 4 days with no issue and then all of sudden
several youtube videos would fail with the message in the middle of the
screen " the video is unavailable at this time. Please try again later".
These same site play just fine under 146.0. Isee that 147.0.2 has been released and when the Mint team makes it available. I install it and see
if the issue persists.
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