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YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users (www.androidheadlines.com)
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YouTube expands age verification to more users. Several users are reporting on Reddit seeing new restrictions being applied to their accounts.

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[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The thing about sites like these is that they are augmented by other sites like YouTube or Imgur.

If you live in the UK now, you won't be able to open Imgur links, catbox rarely works and YouTube requires age verification.

There are of course alternatives, but they're barely used.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

well, dictatorial regimes always makes things worse.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yes they do, don't they