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If they actually have age divided portions of their platform, where adults are free to make adult content such as history, reviews of hentai, and so forth, I am all for it. Youtube sucks because it doesn't treat the audience or creators as adults, and often changes the rules at the drop of a hat.
Personally, I am guessing it will fall to Peertube and other fediverse platforms to offer genuine freedom for people, but I wouldn't complain if Bili breaks the camel's back known as Youtube.
I thought China has extremely strict porn laws and laws censoring gory content, I'd expect it to be even worse in that regard. PeerTube and Odysee seem the most promising right now
Porn is illegal in China in any form. That's why their social media is 90% softcore porn of girls "testing workout equipment". I'm not even kidding, until you train your algo to ignore this almost all content is softcore porn bait and not even social media. Even e-commerce is just porn now lol
Oh or the NPC streams? Those are weird, yo.
From what I've seen, you can avoid the gore issues by desaturating the gory image or part of the video. The porn thing is true, women will use image stickers, mosaics or other obscuring methods to cover up even small amounts of cleavage, but that doesn't mean there isn't thirst trap content, it just looks a little different.
That just doesn't have a big impact on the content I actually want to see, so I don't really mind it.
It'll just be one more source to add to my GrayJay client at the end of the day lol
How well does GrayJay work? Freetube used to work amazing but it's a tug of war now with google which frequently bans my IP. And it's yt only.
I found this article actually explaining how to bypass this for yt-dlp. But I wonder how far we'll come to have this in a multi source app.
Hasn't had any issues that weren't rectified within a day for me. It has sorta yt-dlp functionality integrated with any source (so exporting your playlist to a local backup is a breeze).
Since the community can add their own sources, it's relatively easy to find one if the one you want isn't on the official support list. You also can use the client on any non-apple device so that's cool. (Even has local sync which is sick)
As for the IP stuff, it usually only stops playback if YT flags you as a bot (since the client doesn't send the telemetry data back to google that would normally validate your "humanity"), but something as simple as a VPN location/address change is enough to keep on watching (and the original address will work again within an hour).