“Please doxx yourself to continue”
For the longest time it would force me to log in to watch “restricted” videos, but now that’s not enough.
It gave me a fourth option of “verify by email address” but that didn’t work.
Won’t someone think of the children!?
Meanwhile the children are being gunned down in schools, eh whatever shit’s boring who cares?
There’s literal pedophiles in charge of the empire, but we must protect the children from learning about a genocide.
Institutional pedophilea ala Trump and Epstein is fine, it’s problematic when the poors do it instead. (I feel dirty for even writing this lmao)
same with everything else… stealing, murder,removed… all of it is only bad when done by the poors
Im gonna email you pics of my boobies
verify this, google
This has been the norm in Europe for a few years now. I refuse to give Youtube my ID or bank card lol
I try to look for the video on archive.org when it is age restricted and it works sometimes
I use Newpipe and launch a VPN whenever they block my IP address
you’re welcome
i was just thinking yesterday i don’t know if there’s an app out there like Plex but for your music so you can stream from your media server or desktop to your phone + Android Auto/CarPlay or whatever
this seems like it would be close but i don’t see any mention of Android Auto
from a brief perusal of their website, it seems their either funded by or run by fascists or fascist sympathizers: https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html
What in tarnation?! That is such a bummer. I have been a fan of Louis Rossman for years, and that he lent his credibility to FUTO made me think they must be cool, that and their claims of donating to good FOSS projects…and around FOSS and self-hosting circles, projects like Grayjay and Immich are frequently touted as the best alternatives for people who care about their privacy…
- I imagine I’ll keep using Grayjay as it is free, and ad-free, and the source code is publicly available so I know they’re not hiding any data mining or the like, and they won’t be profiting off me
- I’m off to head down a rabbit hole to validate the claims in this post…wish me luck everyone!
EDIT: Back from the Rabbit Hole. Yeah, it looks like FUTO is run by a fascist-sympathizing arsehole. There ARE some cool things about them. Their main business model seems to be freeware that you can pay for if you want to support but paying doesn’t get you extra features and free doesn’t get you ads, or anything else bad.
Most of their software is source code available, so users can see what’s under the hood, but it’s not GPL (or similar), you can’t fork, and you can’t do with what you please. That’s not my favorite, but the real kicker is them trying to redefine what open source means to shoehorn that model into being called “open source,” it’s not.
The big exception being Immich, which they did not develop, but recently bought. I’m torn here: Immich was primarily made by volunteers and FUTO is giving the team full time salaries and making it so they don’t have to work other jobs. Immich has (at least for now) remained fully open source (AGPL 3.0). But, donations to the project now go to FUTO, and I’m sure other people like me will assume good things about FUTO when they see they make Immich, which is, I think, stolen valor (or I guess, bought valor).
I found another thread about it, and think this comment from u/cecilkorik@lemmy.ca is right:
I think Louis Rossmann’s heart is in the right place, his work for right for repair is genuine, his disdain for New York’s intolerable bureaucracy is completely understandable and justified, but it is leading him in bad directions and has been ever since he linked up with FUTO. Never trust a billionaire and never let them delude you into thinking they care about you or anyone. He is being used for his reputation and his audience and when they are done consuming those things for the billionaire’s cause’s benefit he will be left with neither one and the billionaire will move on without slowing down or shedding a tear.
In the end, I think migrating of FUTO apps is a good idea, but since they are free and ad-free, if you use them, you can at least take solace knowing you’re not making them any money, just don’t get suckered in and donate to their for-profit, seemingly shady company.
My read on Louis Rossman is he is a libertarian and pretty awful on the politics side of things and very pro capitalist. He just happens to be right on right to repair and has cute cats but I wouldnt trust him that much
YouTube ain’t worth it. Claim your time back.
well at least your account isn’t so old that they dont have to bother asking
My account is old enough to drink. I may also pay for the plus because I don’t want to have to deal with ads on my TV which is much harder to block ads on.
I hate that they basically put all the Vanced features in Plus then made it almost impossible to run Vanced.
Get the slop churner to make an ID, perhaps? Never tried it, worth a shot.
Using the slop churner to generate a selfie of an old sweaty man to verify your age.
But what if it ends up looking too much like the actual me?
