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

More fun with YouTube. For years, YouTube programmers screw with add ons
that assist with downloading. One of the best-know add ons was unusable
for a 10 month period but it's back now.

For the latest trick, YouTube is going after my other add ons. I get 30 >seconds of video then it freezes. I've been forced to try shutting down
and restarting Firefox and, sometimes, restarting the computer. I
thought it was due to too many open tabs but it's the same problem with
just a few open tabs.

I've toggled NoScript on and off and uBlock Origin on and off. No joy. >Sometimes Web sites try to figure out which add ons I've installed to
force me to uninstall them, not just disable them.

YouTube plays in troubleshooting mode, which disallows any use of add
ons. Gah, there are a lot of commercial inturruptions. Feh.

The issues I had with YouTube have gone away. I didn't change my add
ons.

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

Has anyone found a work around?
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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

"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.

They may be using Intellicheck (https://www.intellicheck.com/) to scan
your ID. So, maybe you could take a pic of your driver license,
photoshop the photo to paste in Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google), change
your date to his birthdate, and then have Intellichk scan your
photoshopped pic. Fake IDs are most likely illegal in your area. Maybe
the pic you send Intellichk gets scrutinized to check for glare from the plastic card, dimpling, depth of lettering, etc to see you sent them a
fake ID. I haven't bothered to check what-all Intellicheck uses to
determine the pic of an ID is legit, and then verify you are who you say
you are, and are over 18.

Google looks at how old is your Google account, on your web searches
with them, which videos you watch, and all their other analytics. This
AI crap started Aug 13 on trying to determine your age based on what you
put in your comments (so start them all with "My grandson said"), and
other data mining they do in your activity at Google. And we all know
AI never fucks up.

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. Since Google's AI is
watching what you watch, you need to NOT watch videos marked for kids.
You need to bias their analytics on you as an adult watching non-kid
videos. Before you play the video, see if there are comments. If there
are no comments, the video was marked appropriate for kids. Generate a
watch history that is devoid of marked-for-kids videos. Don't watch
SpongeBob videos on Youtube. Watch iCarly episodes. You'll get your
share of stupidity on both.

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.

You might try using a VPN using an exit node in a country where the COP
law doesn't apply, or don't restrict access based on age. Not sure if
that will work since exit nodes for VPNs (and TOR) have been mapped, so
they could detect you were connecting from an exit node of a VPN.

Youtube is compelled to follow laws, but only in their regions where
they operate servers. Try using a VPN to look like you're not in those regions.
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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.

. . .

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