YouTube on Wednesday will begin testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors.
Also, what’s stopping Google from killing alt front-ends altogether by either completely login-walling YT, including for G-rated and PG-rated content and not just the age-gated stuff, implementing DRM platform-wide on YT and not just on paid commercial content ala movies or TV produced by one of the media conglomerates like they already implement DRM on, or both, at some point in the future?
Alt front-ends still work for now, but Google could kill them outright at any time, and I just mentioned two ways they could do that: hard login-walling or platform-wide DRM, or both.
Time to learn about Invidious, Freetube, and alt frontends.
Nah, I think I’ll use the opportunity to get away from it outright. And really if more people did do that youtube would roll it back pretty quickly
Also, what’s stopping Google from killing alt front-ends altogether by either completely login-walling YT, including for G-rated and PG-rated content and not just the age-gated stuff, implementing DRM platform-wide on YT and not just on paid commercial content ala movies or TV produced by one of the media conglomerates like they already implement DRM on, or both, at some point in the future?
Alt front-ends still work for now, but Google could kill them outright at any time, and I just mentioned two ways they could do that: hard login-walling or platform-wide DRM, or both.