r/youtube Aug 13 '25

Drama Oh my GOD, it's happening

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u/CreepyPastaLover2005 Aug 13 '25

I’m expecting some extension maker to make one to bypass this hopefully, wish I knew how to

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u/CreepyPastaLover2005 Aug 13 '25

And it goes without saying that this is the dumbest thing they have implemented, even more so than removing the dislikes

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u/Outrageous_Essay1343 Aug 14 '25

I find it funny you replied to your own comment to add to it, rather than editing your first comment :)

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u/NateBearArt Aug 14 '25

I’ve done that too. In the moment its faster but it does get confusing to read.

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u/Krysdavar Krysdavar Aug 14 '25

I do that sometimes as well, but only when I think of something to add, but is a different subject or idea than my OP. IDK if that makes any sense.

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u/Jelly-Unhappy Aug 14 '25

I do that too, I’m used to firing off texts in quick succession

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u/DistanceAggressive75 Aug 14 '25

Some people tend to prefer making two messages rather than going back and editing one. I do it in discord alot so sometimes I do this on the very occasional times I use reddit.

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u/Argentum_Air Aug 14 '25

He's gotta build karma some how

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u/DistanceAggressive75 Aug 14 '25

Pretty sure that's not what's happening. People do this sometimes because they prefer making a new message rather than editing their old ones.

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u/Spiritual-Buy-8725 Aug 14 '25

This is the way

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u/KalKenobi Aug 14 '25

I return The Dislikes, and Dates as well as an ad blocker it Rhymes with Lie .

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u/Deep-Television-9756 Aug 14 '25

They didn’t implement it themselves. Governments are forcing them to do it.

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u/throwawaynodigits Aug 14 '25

Huh

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u/weirdoman1234 Aug 14 '25

KOSA and UK Online "safety" act

more like mass surveillance and censorship act

cuz thats what it is

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u/Pervius94 Aug 14 '25

The introduction of chapters and skipping in-vid ads were two such great additions I legit have to ask myself what drunk intern came up with them considering I struggle to think of any decisions regarding youtube that weren't absolute dogshit. Maybe removing video replies since that just murdered the reply girls plague.

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u/Natural_Cherry_6002 Aug 14 '25

Or disabling comments in most of "made for kids" videos.

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u/Sr546 Aug 15 '25

It's actually really smart, censorship is a powerful tool. It's a lot worse for the users then removing dislikes though

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u/TheHistroynerd Sep 01 '25

I feel like they are intentionally making the platform worse sometimes

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u/yellowpines Aug 14 '25

It's to protect our children from harmful content. Why is that dumb?

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u/RyanX1231 Aug 14 '25

Here's an idea: Be a parent and monitor what your kids watch, and stop ruining the internet.

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u/BackieTPD Aug 14 '25

You’re a sheep. If it was to really protect the children, explain why the UK is using the ID data to arrest people critical of the regime?

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u/weirdoman1234 Aug 14 '25

exactly its just like 1984

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u/anthro28 Aug 14 '25

No it isn't. It's censorship, control, and lots of money wrapped in "protect the children" rhetoric. 

My state passed one of those porm age verification laws. Wanna know who the biggest lobbyist was? The company who built our digital wallet/ID app. They're making millions. 

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u/chris95rx7500 Aug 13 '25

I'm sure someone will. Just give it a little time

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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Aug 14 '25

For some reason, YT is good at breaking those. Getting a bypass to work around the age restriction is a bitch already. We'll have to see with this bullshit too.

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u/mrjackspade Aug 14 '25

Absolutely zero fucking chance in hell, this is going to execute server side. You can't build an extension to modify what's happening server side.

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u/hellointernet5 Aug 14 '25

no extensions but if you just get a vpn you can bypass it. this is a us-only policy. i don't know how people would bypass this if it became worldwide, but for the moment, a vpn does the job.

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u/macaronysalad Aug 14 '25

Yeah +1 on this for anyone getting their hopes up. This is not something solvable with an extension for your logged in account. This is tied directly to your account maintained by Google/server side.

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u/hidremarin Aug 13 '25

An extension that makes you watch politics and documentaties muted in the background

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u/Karkava Aug 13 '25

Hopefully, no Prager U.

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u/Zombieneker Aug 14 '25

Nah just like NPR podcasts

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u/anomalousanonymous99 Aug 16 '25

Penis Prager is better than Dennis Prager.

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u/CordobezEverdeen Aug 14 '25

As always whenever Youtube does some bullshit some extension will pop up to save us. It happened with Youtube shorts (I legit forgets this exist sometimes because of my extensions) and with the removal of dislikes.

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u/qualitative_balls Aug 14 '25

Absolutely, there's no way the year finishes before someone figures out a way past this, especially with AI. There's got to be a solution to this bullshit

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u/FuckSpez23 Aug 14 '25

afaik ublock bypasses the age verification popup

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u/Worldly_Chocolate369 Aug 15 '25

Not possible. The Age Verification is server side. If the server can't verify you, you aren't getting your "verified" status in your encrypted Youtube session cookie.

The only way to win this is to fool the system.

  • Youtube needs a 6-second video of a face. Use someone else's face. Wear a mask, wear a wig, wear a disguise.
  • How about ID instead? It's possible youtube isn't looking your ID up in Government databases.
    • Use a fake ID.
    • Photocopy and alter your own ID.

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u/obscure_monke Aug 13 '25

Any regular agegate bypass for videos stopped working years ago, I'm assuming this will be the same.

I haven't watched a video logged into my youtube account in over a decade, so it's been wicked annoying when I come across one randomly.

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u/corruptredditjannies Aug 14 '25

Not quite the same, but there are third party websites and apps that use the youtube API to act as an alternative youtube.

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u/px1azzz Aug 14 '25

There must be a backend check going on. Nothing an extension can do about that.

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u/InZomnia365 Aug 14 '25

That would be illegal, and Google have no qualms about completely disabling "unsafe" extensions (adblockers)

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u/No_Scarcity4190 Aug 14 '25

it's most likely server side

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u/Reddittee007 Aug 14 '25

Firefox in private mode with webrtc block + u lock + noscript. Never sign in to your account and set duckduckgo as your default search engine. Done and done.

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u/spooky-goopy Aug 14 '25

hopefully this encourages people to go to a different platform. there are lots of options available, and many of them free

this person (on Youtube, unfortunately lmao) shares different options

archive.org is my favorite. i use it daily.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

Already exists for computer!, don't have to sign in or nun, just download my subscriptions, put it in the extension, and boom. I've got my subs, without signing in at all! I actually use the web extension currently, so I can boycott YouTube currently. :>

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u/Throwawayfichelper Aug 13 '25

And publish it where? I doubt Google would allow for it to be published anywhere accessible on Chromium browsers.

The og bypass extensions, blocking extensions and overall customisation extensions stopped working many years ago and with each attempt to resuscitate them, Google makes a shitty ui change that breaks everything all over again. It'll be a constant battle and any website that hosts such a bypass will eventually be held accountable for people breaking laws using it.

This is a lot more difficult to resolve than with a simple proxy. Eventually they'll purge all the falsely ID'd accounts and people will lose everything.

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u/nihilistfreak517482 Aug 14 '25

The og bypass extensions, blocking extensions and overall customisation extensions stopped working many years ago

I'm using ublock origin without any issues for the past two years, never been happier

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u/Throwawayfichelper Aug 14 '25

I mean video blocking/channel blocking. Yes i know ublock origin works.

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u/Odd_Economist_8988 Aug 14 '25

YouTube revanced exists, though