Well, I cannot bypass Youtube's age restriction anymore without either taking a selfie or showing an ID or giving my credit card number
Wasn't there a website where you could get ai photos and videos for this?
Credit card is the best of the options. There are all sorts of strict rules and restrictions about how companies store and use credit card information. Those rules don't exist for the other options.
I don’t want to give any of my info to Google though
Compromise is always the game.
You either comprise by not using YouTube anymore, or you compromise by giving them the most tightly restricted information they'll accept.
You'll never have perfect privacy. I guarentee Google already has a supressing amount of info on you. At least this is officially protected. Once you give the card as proof, you can probably delete it from their saved data. And they have to honor that, both by law and contracts with Visa etc.
I'm waiting for the change in T&Cs to basically say "If you don't watch enough ads, you will be auto subscribed to YT premium using the ccard on file"
That's one of the restrictions. If they try to do that, you just call Visa and cancel the charge. Then Visa will fight with Google to get their money back.
I wonder if a temporary credit card will work maybe?
That's an idea. It might. I don't know
There’s a user script for this that I hope works for you: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/521089-youtube-age-restriction-bypass-stealth-version
Have you tried mirrors?
It doesn't work for age restricted videos
No, I mean people who post youtube videos to other platforms.
Can't you use a VPN and route your traffic outside of your country?
I am on VPN 24/7 changing countries made no difference
Do you use your google acccount? If so, try without it You can use newpipe or invidious btw
Tampermonkey extension still works for me to unlock age-restricted videos. Is it having issues for you?
If you don't have it, check out these two links:
https://greasyfork.org/en/help/installing-user-scripts
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/521089-youtube-age-restriction-bypass-stealth-version
It's got instructions for nearly every browser. Once you have the extension you can install whichever scripts you like. I mostly use it for verification bypass but there's a lot of other cool stuff you can do too.
This didn’t work
if all fails i can highly recommend invidious. you can also import your youtube subscriptions
good luck OP
EDIT: yea... age restricted videos are off the table though.
For me what worked is restating the router. I read that you use VPN, so I don't know I it will work.
It almost certainly won't work but I'd be curious if any test credit card numbers work for that purpose. They still pass the Luhn algorithm, but I'm guessing Google is still gonna reach out to some service to verify the CC details.
Test cards: https://docs.stripe.com/testing
How did you do it before?
Can you try to make a new account? Or use any of the YouTube frontends?
I tried, but it doesn't work for age restricted videos. I tend to use Freetube whenever possible, and only swap to other options when I am forced for age restriction.
Last time a fake id worked, just searched for an id sample online and gimped it to match the name and the date on the google acc.
Didn't even have to change the default photo.
This was some years ago, idk if it still works tho.
Might have to do that