Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android
by saurik on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:48AM
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FWIW, I feel like this--age verification for age restricted videos--is probably caused by either a regulation that already happened or a regulation that was threatened and which Google felt safer to define the boundaries of for themselves (not that I think that often leads to sane outcomes).
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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android
by Mindwipe on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:35AM
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It is, it's a requirement of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive in the EU, and in particular the UK and Irish regulators implementations of it. Especially the Irish one, since YouTube EMEA is based in Ireland and effectively make the regulatory decisions for the entire EU under the AVMS.
I feel like we all desperately took our eye off the ball when that was passed.
Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android
by johnisgood on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:21AM
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You are right. They are too big, and are at the crosshair of the Government. They must obey. I am pretty much against both in these cases, to be honest.