Choose how to verify your age - Can you pass Samir verifying your age?

[We Are The Witches]

Yes, this is not new (older thread), but it has been a while since I got prompted with this nonsense, and you cannot tell me how it is not the most stupid and invasive thing ever, so much that is worth reposting.

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So picture this, you are about to watch a video of someone playing "Sparkling! ZERO" (the safest game that you can play, barring Nintendogs) that for some reason got age-restricted automatically by YouTube, and then you find out that you need to verify your age... you proceed, and then you find this:

Use your ID? A fucking image of your ID that you send over email to some random, overwhelmingly incompetent, showered in Dorito dust worker that has the mental capacity of a barely moving hamster wheel? This is the same garbage that Facebook likes to do; if you send them anything of this sort you may not hear anything back from them, and then what? You took an extra invasive hit on your privacy for no one to do anything about it.

Credit card? Screw you.

Ok, and the most interesting one: take a selfie for our "partner" to judge if you look old enough. Hmmm.... you specialize in estimating age? Yeah, I bet is some AI to be trained on it and that's the best case scenario, but maybe it's just some random moron that "specializes" in age, very very versed in that topic, so that they can judge your own.

This barely even covers them legally, how the hell can you claim that you accurately determined if someone was of age, or on the brink of it with a crappy selfie? Not even lighting, or filters by software, but makeup itself can be applied to fool this system. But I know what this usually means, if you send that you won't hear back from them, and now that selfie is for them to use abuse.

 

[AbduluCthuluZulu]

You just know any info you give them is going straight to a pajeet call center so they can try to reach you about your car's extended warranty or those back taxes you can only pay with Amazon gift codes.

 

[The Backwards Man]

Can't you just send them a fake selfie from somewhere like thispersondoesnotexist? I remember doing that for facebook once and it worked.

 

[Rudy Coleman]

the picture im sending them

 

[Tar&FeatherFurrys]

Can't you just send them a fake selfie from somewhere like thispersondoesnotexist? I remember doing that for facebook once and it worked.

I look forward to the day when some anon creates an AI tool that allows you to puppet a random variant of thispersondoesnotexist so it not only allows you pretend to be x but also can do their weird requests like "hold up your left hand and close your thumb toward you palm" bullshit to verify. I'll never give those fucking imbeciles a scruple of my data without making them work like a fucking dog to harvest it from something I can't avoid.

 

[Caesar]

I would send a dick pic because if they say I'm underage they're now in posession of CP

 

[Salaryman]

I use a script to bypass the age verification on YouTube. (a)
If it's broken it will most likely be fixed.

 

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

I just use invidious and or newpipe instances.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

In the next iteration, the only choice is a topless selfie.

 

[Schwarzwald]

I usually just talk to my computer about how back when I was a child, I had to walk to and home from school uphill during a snowstorm every day with a rabid pack of feral dogs that shot hornets out of their mouths every time they barked chasing me. They always let me in after that.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

I'm in the Something Awful but before it actually became awful phase.

 

[AbyssGazer]

I used an anonymous virtual CC that I bought for $4 on Aliexpress. This was way back before I knew about alternatives like ReVanced/NewPipe. A selfie sounds easy to fake, but I guess you can't pick from your gallery.

Anyway, fuck Google in the ass with sandpaper.

 

[Lammy]

Can't you just send them a fake selfie from somewhere like thispersondoesnotexist? I remember doing that for facebook once and it worked.

Facebook kinda just wants any picture of a person, I once used a screencap of a lolcow (Jace Connors) from a livestream and it accepted it.
You could probably just screencap any random <10 viewer streamer on Twitch or elsewhere.

 

[skol]

Generate selfie with ai, upload

 

[Yamamura]

Use your ID?

ID? Don't they know that according to the DNC black folx don't know how to get ID?

 

[Whatevermancer]

Generate selfie with ai, upload

Yeah, I was gonna suggest using something like https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

 

[Cats]

I have come to the conclusion that the internet as a whole has been systematically co-opted by the globalist cabal to function primarily as a demoralization, emotional defenestration and mass destabilization tool. That's why the only place I go anymore is the shitposting website www.kiwifarms.st, a great place for friends to gather and post fun images and strange happenings from the HIV-positive world in which we liiiiiiiiive (shoutout john-michael godier, pre-RIP no jinx on god)

 

[We Are The Witches]

Somewhat sure they screen the images to determine if they're AI generated (well, maybe), which may blacklist it from further attempts if it doesn't pass. I once sent one to Facebook and they didn't do anything about it, so YT could do the same, you send one and only if you're lucky you'll get some sort of action in response.

Luckily, I can bypass this with another account for some reason, and it's not even tied to a phone number, same IP and browser, so they're incompetent even while attempting at being so disruptive.

 

[Axiom.]

Just ask for the 10 bux, nigga.

 

[GeldKampf]

A good solution to using YouTube without all the restriction crap is FreeTube. I first learned about it when Google started testing the anti-adblock shit and I've never looked back. You can subscribe to channels, search (occasionally fucky), make playlists, import playlists, download videos, share link/invidious mirror with timestamp, etc etc and customize to your heart's delight. It's really all I could've ever asked for when it comes to watching YouTube without Google.

The only drawback for me is that you don't get recommendations that are unique to you and your tastes. In my experience, YouTube has nailed it with the recommendations; so not having them sucks. Instead, I'll just go on YouTube logged in and then copy the link of a video I want to watch and paste it into FreeTube. Works about as well.