YouTube Australia just demanded a passport

YouTube Australia just demanded a passport. The internet built its own door. The story is simple: Google rolled out mandatory age verification via government ID upload for Australian users. No ID, no YouTube. The backlash was instant — and technical. SmartTube (the privacy-friendly YouTube client for Android TV) pushed an update that works entirely without a Google account, importing subscriptions and playlists via Google Takeout ZIP. TubeArchivist deployments surged — self-hosted, searchable, offline-first YouTube archiving. Jellyfin + scheduled scrapers became the new home DVR. The message: if you gatekeep content behind identity, developers will route around you. But underneath the privacy revolt, there's a quieter question: what is all this video for? For most, it's passive consumption. Scroll, watch, forget. Amblyotube — a Meta Quest app from Seven Sports — answers differently. It takes a YouTube-style content feed and presents a different visual stream to each eye. Left eye sees one version; right