At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

At 8/12/25 06:02 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

Wow... people being optimistic and having solidarity really makes you that angry? If you want to be fatalistic and defeatist that's your prerogative.

But going in and telling people that they're stupid for having hope and standing up for their rights is really just a sour, asshole move...

Maybe it wont do anything, maybe it will. But I can rest easy knowing I did my part and tried something.
Seriously dude... If you don't agree with it, that's fine, take your nihilistic attitude elsewhere.

But being a dick isn't helping anyone...

At 8/12/25 06:04 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:02 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

Wow... people being optimistic and having solidarity really makes you that angry? If you want to be fatalistic and defeatist that's your prerogative.

But going in and telling people that they're stupid for having hope and standing up for their rights is really just a sour, asshole move...

Maybe it wont do anything, maybe it will. But I can rest easy knowing I did my part and tried something.
Seriously dude... If you don't agree with it, that's fine, take your nihilistic attitude elsewhere.

But being a dick isn't helping anyone...

I'll summarize it like this:
A single day is like pennies for google. A single day won't matter if they know you'll return the following day.

At 8/12/25 06:08 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:04 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:02 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

Wow... people being optimistic and having solidarity really makes you that angry? If you want to be fatalistic and defeatist that's your prerogative.

But going in and telling people that they're stupid for having hope and standing up for their rights is really just a sour, asshole move...

Maybe it wont do anything, maybe it will. But I can rest easy knowing I did my part and tried something.
Seriously dude... If you don't agree with it, that's fine, take your nihilistic attitude elsewhere.

But being a dick isn't helping anyone...

I'll summarize it like this:
A single day is like pennies for google. A single day won't matter if they know you'll return the following day.

Then stay off for more than one day.

I have no delusions about toppling a billion dollar corporation. But I also have no intention of letting them fuck me over. Not without a fight at least. Saying that there's nothing you can do to stop them so you might as well keep using them is EXACTLY what they want.

At 8/12/25 12:23 AM, shade-bot wrote:it amazes me that there aren't more youtubers on my feed complaining about this.

Are they that short sighted? Sure, if your vids are age restricted they lose rev so short term who cares. Do they think they'll get a monopoly on who ever gets categorized as a minor?

A lot of these people I follow can't claim ignorance on this it's their job. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until the 11th hour since they have no control ultimately.

At 8/12/25 06:11 PM, MsNarrator wrote:New newgrounds user here! I'm admittedly kinda nervous considering I've only ever really watched things in the youtube space. If anyone else is just joining the party now like I am, we got this! Just hold out and don't stop until the change is reverted.

At 8/12/25 06:02 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

Wow... people being optimistic and having solidarity really makes you that angry? If you want to be fatalistic and defeatist that's your prerogative.

But going in and telling people that they're stupid for having hope and standing up for their rights is really just a sour, asshole move...

Maybe it wont do anything, maybe it will. But I can rest easy knowing I did my part and tried something.
Seriously dude... If you don't agree with it, that's fine, take your nihilistic attitude elsewhere.

But being a dick isn't helping anyone...

At 8/12/25 06:12 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:11 PM, MsNarrator wrote:New newgrounds user here! I'm admittedly kinda nervous considering I've only ever really watched things in the youtube space. If anyone else is just joining the party now like I am, we got this! Just hold out and don't stop until the change is reverted.

It's a combination of legal woes and massive pressure for google to do something about kids being online. Unless google collapses entirely, I don't see things getting better.

At 8/12/25 06:13 PM, DioShiba wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:02 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

Wow... people being optimistic and having solidarity really makes you that angry? If you want to be fatalistic and defeatist that's your prerogative.

But going in and telling people that they're stupid for having hope and standing up for their rights is really just a sour, asshole move...

Maybe it wont do anything, maybe it will. But I can rest easy knowing I did my part and tried something.
Seriously dude... If you don't agree with it, that's fine, take your nihilistic attitude elsewhere.

But being a dick isn't helping anyone...

If you're going to do something to actually hurt google's business, then you have to go the extra mile if you want a boycott to be effective.

Do you even realize how many boycotts like this have been attempted only for the exact corporations that you are protesting against to continue with the same thing?

They don't care if it's one day.

Your optimism is misplaced if you think that they will, they're just going to do the exact same thing that they've always been doing because of how much money is involved. And that's the reality of the situation.

"Oh BuT DiOShEeBuH U bEiNg MeAnIe DiK CaWkHoLe"

And you're being a cunt.

Stop acting as if the bare minimum is enough to do anything.

At 8/12/25 06:23 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:17 PM, MsNarrator wrote:alternative browsers / search engines

What alternatives? Your only choices are truly google, bing, or yandex. Everything else like DDG and the like just give you semi-anonymized (if it even is) from google or bing. And trust me, DDG despite some things to praise about it, is rather poor in search accuracy. You have to pick between two american companies or the russians (Doesn't china have their own search engine?) whom you trust to know your searches.

Like I said, I agree with DioShiba on the rant that one day isn't going to make a difference, but there is a logical limit on how far you truly go with it without going full ted kazinzki.

At 8/12/25 06:20 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:13 PM, DioShiba wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:02 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

Wow... people being optimistic and having solidarity really makes you that angry? If you want to be fatalistic and defeatist that's your prerogative.

But going in and telling people that they're stupid for having hope and standing up for their rights is really just a sour, asshole move...

Maybe it wont do anything, maybe it will. But I can rest easy knowing I did my part and tried something.
Seriously dude... If you don't agree with it, that's fine, take your nihilistic attitude elsewhere.

But being a dick isn't helping anyone...

If you're going to do something to actually hurt google's business, then you have to go the extra mile if you want a boycott to be effective.

Do you even realize how many boycotts like this have been attempted only for the exact corporations that you are protesting against to continue with the same thing?

They don't care if it's one day.

Your optimism is misplaced if you think that they will, they're just going to do the exact same thing that they've always been doing because of how much money is involved. And that's the reality of the situation.

"Oh BuT DiOShEeBuH U bEiNg MeAnIe DiK CaWkHoLe"

And you're being a cunt.

Stop acting as if the bare minimum is enough to do anything.

Once again you're missing the point. Its not to break the company, its to do the right thing. Sometimes its not about a tangible change in the moment, but knowing you did what you could.

And seriously bro... You might have some anger issues....

At 8/12/25 06:25 PM, MsNarrator wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:23 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:17 PM, MsNarrator wrote:alternative browsers / search engines

What alternatives? Your only choices are truly google, bing, or yandex. Everything else like DDG and the like just give you semi-anonymized (if it even is) from google or bing. And trust me, DDG despite some things to praise about it, is rather poor in search accuracy. You have to pick between two american companies or the russians (Doesn't china have their own search engine?) whom you trust to know your searches.

Like I said, I agree with DioShiba on the rant that one day isn't going to make a difference, but there is a logical limit on how far you truly go with it without going full ted kazinzki.

Fair point, I can really only hope they reach a breaking point. Its dumb optimism no doubt but you'd think with a large enough tank in numbers, at least the shareholders up top would raise an eyebrow.

At 8/12/25 06:27 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:25 PM, MsNarrator wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:23 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:17 PM, MsNarrator wrote:alternative browsers / search engines

What alternatives? Your only choices are truly google, bing, or yandex. Everything else like DDG and the like just give you semi-anonymized (if it even is) from google or bing. And trust me, DDG despite some things to praise about it, is rather poor in search accuracy. You have to pick between two american companies or the russians (Doesn't china have their own search engine?) whom you trust to know your searches.

Like I said, I agree with DioShiba on the rant that one day isn't going to make a difference, but there is a logical limit on how far you truly go with it without going full ted kazinzki.

Fair point, I can really only hope they reach a breaking point. Its dumb optimism no doubt but you'd think with a large enough tank in numbers, at least the shareholders up top would raise an eyebrow.

Why on earth would they. Google owns android (The most popular smart phone brand in the world), they have search engine, drive, photos, YouTube and a dozen other services. Google makes money off ad-revenue. They might have slightly shifted away from using flash to power advertisements online, but so many people don't even know adblockers exist that you and me are no true threat.

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

At 8/12/25 06:34 PM, ShadeBotT-900 wrote:

At 8/12/25 11:04 AM, oxicleansoda wrote:isn't AI known to mess up shit all the time too? there's no way it's going to be accurate lol... I can't wait for YouTube to think I'm 8 years old based off of what I'm watching!

Very. It'd probably be real easy to throw off too. Just gotta devote 1hr of watch time to some boomer content.

Give it a while i'm sure the autists over at reddit will go at it from this angle.

At 8/12/25 06:02 PM, DigitalRusticMedia wrote:

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:It's been said before, it'll be said again.

Boycotting the platform for one day isn't going to do shit.

If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

This whole thread is just virtue signaling at it's core and if you think that telling other people to boycott it for one day is doing anything, then you're not doing anything of value.

I don't care what kind of attitude you think I have toward this.

Wow... people being optimistic and having solidarity really makes you that angry? If you want to be fatalistic and defeatist that's your prerogative.

But going in and telling people that they're stupid for having hope and standing up for their rights is really just a sour, asshole move...

Maybe it wont do anything, maybe it will. But I can rest easy knowing I did my part and tried something.
Seriously dude... If you don't agree with it, that's fine, take your nihilistic attitude elsewhere.

But being a dick isn't helping anyone...

At 8/12/25 06:31 PM, ShadeBotT-900 wrote:

At 8/12/25 05:50 PM, DioShiba wrote:If you're serious about boycotting youtube in any capacity, delete your gmail, delete your youtube accounts, take everything off your smartphone related to google, and stay off the platform for the rest of your life. Not one day, not one month. not even a single solitary year. Just erase your existence from it.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

At 8/12/25 06:23 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 06:17 PM, MsNarrator wrote:alternative browsers / search engines

What alternatives? Your only choices are truly google, bing, or yandex. Everything else like DDG and the like just give you semi-anonymized (if it even is) from google or bing. And trust me, DDG despite some things to praise about it, is rather poor in search accuracy. You have to pick between two american companies or the russians (Doesn't china have their own search engine?) whom you trust to know your searches.

Like I said, I agree with DioShiba on the rant that one day isn't going to make a difference, but there is a logical limit on how far you truly go with it without going full ted kazinzki.

At 8/12/25 07:14 PM, ShangXian wrote:

At 8/12/25 07:02 PM, EpiqueCrimson wrote:Is this only in the US or am i fucked too

Youtube will to roll out an all-new AI-based age verification system in the United States on Wednesday, August 13. Initially, the tests will be conducted on a small amount of YouTube’s audience in the US. It will eventually become more pervasive when the concept starts working at par with how it performs in other cities around the world.
The new system will only remain effective when the viewers are logged into their accounts on YouTube. It will assess viewers' age regardless of their date of birth, which people enter at the time of sign up.

At 8/12/25 07:16 PM, xeiavica wrote:

At 8/12/25 07:09 PM, DioShiba wrote:Isn't Duck Duck Go the best alternative to google right now?

I would say possibly yes. I was thinking of startpage and searx (remember those?), when I said DDG just gives you third party results, that actually did just give you google/bing results. DDG appears to be independent, but it needs improvements because it's a grab bag. But most concerning, is how the creators past history involved selling data. We have no proof any wrongdoings, but still, something to raise an eyebrow over.