I've been having some weird issues over the last few days with not being able to search for things in YouTube when I'm logged in via SmartTube account.
So I decided to try accessing it directly. Well guess what? It looks like YouTube now requires age verification in AU.
Sorry Google... I'm not uploading my passport, drivers licence or govt id to watch your shit. I am however now very incentivized to use Tube archivist and Jellyfin, plus cron job to scrape your shit with gleeful abandon.
Last I checked that didn't work so well on SmartTV. Will check again...though am tempted to get ChatGPT to generate a fake image for facial recognition. More delicious - make shit fight shit
I'd ditch YouTube entirely but it has some stuff I share with students on there, plus my kids like watching old duck tales cartoons. The latter can be neatly addressed with Stremio / CloudStream but the former is a pain in the ass to work around.
complain about things being shit and then use chatgpt, well done champ.
Fire with fire, champ.
more like urine with urine
Shit with shit.
Interestingly, their faceID thing now requires that you use your phone with a live selfie, so the ChatGPT idea is a bust.