Yep, fingerprinting is a bitch. I’ve tried settings on Librewolf and IronFox to reduce it, but obviously it’s impossible to fool the creators of internet stalking.

Anyway, tried with a brand spanking new profile on Linrewolf, no VPN on, and tried to watch. Wouldn’t work without logging in, and after that it still asked to verify my age.

Tried in Ungoogled Chromium with VPN set to Canada on guest profile (I’ve never used guest), and same thing. Tried with Japan VPN on a fake profile named “Jimmy”, same thing. Tried my other Google account on another new fake chromium profile and Argentina VPN, but no dice. At this rate Google probs thinks I’m hacked lol.

I know why YTs have been censoring themselves, and I know that the video having “Fuck” in the title is the reason. But in the past Google would just give a warning, or simply use the age listed on your account (which yes, could be faked as I did in the past). None of that is new to me.

The issue now, is that they’re actually enforcing age checks, and you can’t get around them without giving up personal info to Google. I am legally an adult, but now I have to show ID or use a credit card to prove it. That’s the gross shit. I guess it’s mostly a vent post, since this is the first time I’ve literally been unable to watch a video.

Been using Fedora for a year or so now. I’ve done tests with ipleak and such to verify my VPN isn’t leaking, and have torrented on it (with it attached to my client and tested that the client stops when the VPN is disconnected).

Holy shit, that’s crazy. Thankfully I’ve moved most of my stuff from Google to other services (I love mailbox.org ♥️) but I might have a thing or two stuck on there…

Thanks for the heads up, hopefully I can just ride this one out, but it’s ass man…

I do use Proton often, and it seems it was set to New Jersey this time. I live in the US, and afaik, my state doesn’t have mandatory age checks for all websites.

Edit: NVM, my state has signed and will soon enforce a social media age check. Guess I’ll VPN to other states and countries 💀

Even when I disable ProtonVPN, the same things happen. Freetube and Invidious say may be inappropriate, mpv crashes (non age restricted videos play fine), and even YT ReVanced throws a fit on both my accounts. On browser, both Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium get hit with the same “verify age” button. On Fedora Linux.

There should be a short of noise that’s made when a video or picture is taken/recording, kinda like how all Japanese phones are legally required to have a shutter click noise. It’d be nice if the LED being covered disabled the camera though.

Actually, I was just about to post how you can’t even use yt-dlp or alternative front ends, since I just tried that. Mpv crashes, Freetube comes up with a blank and mentioned age verification, and yt-dlp showed the same thing. Pipepipe probably won’t work due to using invidious.