What an atrocious website. Three pop-ups when you load, then another one when you try to leave.

Maybe I misunderstood the article, but... the participants would have had no incentive to lie?

They were going to get the money for the fixed period unconditionally. That was the point.

Revanced allows you to patch the official Android YouTube apk to enable this feature alongside many others, including a block, Sponsorblock, and dislikes.

https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager

Rossmann's Grayjay app offers the same functionality in a separate standalone client. It has a paid pro mode, but is free software. I use this on devices that I haven't signed in with Google.

https://grayjay.app/

The real reason why sideloading is soon to be blocked by Google, along with NewPipe.

I feel like saying that there's a paid pro mode is a bit disingenuous.

You can buy a licence to support the app and the development, but the feature set is identical if you pay or not.

A big difference.

This must be an exception, and not a rule. I've lived in Melbourne for years, and have never had my drivers license scanned.

Yes, with Sponsorblock to skip in-video ads.

Same, but I only watch Youtube through MPV (which also has Sponsorblock plugins). When I need to actually browse Youtube I use an Invidious instance. I don't even remember the last time I intentionally watched a video on the Youtube website proper.

I didn't know this before searching for it, but there's a wikipedia article with a list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...

Very interesting, thank you!