[junon]

Google denying me access to YouTube videos asking me to verify my age by giving them either my passport or my credit card should be illegal as well.

Then they expanded it to the app store - some apps, even ones that don't seem to need to be age restricted - now require I verify my age in the same way. I just give them the middle finger and manually install the APKs for those apps.

Unfortunately, no way to get around the YouTube restriction though.

Google having a complete monopoly on this stuff has got to end at some point. They have way too much power over what are now pretty mainstream services to the internet, especially since they cannot be completed with by most companies, even those with adequate funding and reach.

[kevincox]

> Google denying me access to YouTube videos asking me to verify my age by giving them either my passport or my credit card should be illegal as well.

Wasn't this added because of some EU law? It seems that YouTube's interpretation was that asking this is the opposite of illegal, actually legally required.

[ycuser2]

The irony is that I have to verify my age on YouTube, but I heard that people don't need this on any porn site for example.

[mc_woods]

UK prawn laws? - proposed and then dropped?

[C4K3]

You can get around the youtube restrictions using yt-dlp (fork of youtube-dl) There are video players such as mpv that integrate with youtube-dl/yt-dlp so you can watch videos without saving them.

[junon]

Including the age restriction? I don't see how that's possible. I know some typical bypass methods work for some of the other checks but they've never worked for the age requirements.

I'll give it a try though, thanks. There are some High Boi videos I still haven't seen :|