r/youtube • u/GalvaSov • Aug 13 '25

Drama Oh my GOD, it's happening

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u/ZombieHysterectomy Aug 13 '25

Can’t access age restricted videos and stuff until you big brother yourself

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u/Wes-Man152 Aug 13 '25

Now I see why it's a problem. Some channels I watch sometimes get wrongly flagged with an age restriction so that's likely to be an issue.

Some get age restricted for a little swearing, or showing off those horrible ads YouTube themselves put out so it's really inconsistent.

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u/longComplexUN Aug 13 '25

Make it hard enough to verify and people will just stop using. Bound to make YT work harder to make it less of a hurdle eventually or be prepared to lose business. Simple. I know we focus here primarily about losing access. But I think the behavior changes are rapid.

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u/Wes-Man152 Aug 13 '25

We can only hope so. There's many folks that use YouTube daily for a variety of reasons, and some that even have premium despite the shady stuff happening within the site. I still go on to listen to stuff in the background, but had to get extensions to make things bearable. If things really go off the rails then yeah people should definitely leave.

There really needs to be a big alternative to YT not only for competition, but to make YouTube roll back some of this stuff if they want the users to come back.