YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

Post by sp332 » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:26 PM UTC

jtbayly wrote: post #96

Spivak wrote: post #81

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Sounds good. Say I'm a non-technical parent that wants to give my child access to YouTube but not allow them to watch content that they're not old enough to consume on their own. How should I do this? I want to give them the freedom to explore topics they're interested in so downloading some pre-approved videos isn't going to work. And my kid is smart and will realize that any account-specific setting can trivially b…

Even if you locked them down to YT for kids, do you honestly trust Google to accurately decide what is acceptable for kids? Yeah, no. I don't. (Remember when they had porn in there?) So how does this help, anyway?

Post by h_anna_h » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:27 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #98

wyager wrote: post #59

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This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.

Well then parents should apply legislative pressure, which should arrive at Google as "fix this or we legislate", and bingo, Google need to do something. That is parents doing parenting. Parenting happens through societal structures.

Post by TheCoelacanth » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:28 PM UTC

growse wrote: post #124

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #98

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Well then parents should apply legislative pressure, which should arrive at Google as "fix this or we legislate", and bingo, Google need to do something. That is parents doing parenting. Parenting happens through societal structures.

When parenting your own kids isn't enough, but you feel you need to parent everyone else's as well.

Post by h_anna_h » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:29 PM UTC

adkadskhj wrote: post #75

wyager wrote: post #59

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This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.

It _sounds_ like you're speaking in absolutes though, lacking nuance. If you are, my reply to absolutes would be that we should stop enforcing alcohol sales to minors, as it's the parent's job to ensure kids their don't drink. Personally i think age verification is good. This implementation is moronic, though. And all around it's very, very difficult. So difficult that it may never be useful.

Post by tpxl » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 3:30 PM UTC

rorykoehler wrote: post #53

bencollier49 wrote: post #34

I've found YouTube increasingly unusable in general over the last few months. It seems to be pushing absolute rubbish at me. There's a gap in the market for a music-only video service.

All the videos start in potato quality for me now. What is going on? Surely they can afford the bandwidth of all services?