Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com brownmustardminion @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Age Restricted Youtube

I realize this is a really silly request, but I absolutely refuse to watch YouTube videos without a proxy frontend let alone logging into a google account.

I've been wanting to watch dnsl's "Fallout RP is serious business" but it's age restricted.

Does anybody know either of a way to bypass the age restriction or can just send me the video? I've tried everything I know short of giving in and signing into YouTube.

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You can't bypass age verification on YouTube.

yt-dlp still works for age verification content, but you have to pass cookies to it.

But here's the video: https://qu.ax/KsDqd.mp4
I use GrayJay as my front-end, and it’s got some cool features like age restrictions, SponorBlock, and the return of the Dislike button. Plus, you can even log into your YouTube account.
- I think the question is, can it do all those other things without having to log into your YouTube accoubt?
  
  Yes.
  
  The logging in is for getting your subscriptions transferred. Though you could also do the export method on there too.
  
  I use a CSV file that I exported from my Google account a few years back. You can also sync between the phone and desktop app, subscriptions, watch list and playlists.
I bought a google account for less than $1, used it to log in to pipepipe and nothing else. Then I only use pipepipe when all else fails.

I haven't found any other way, even an unreliable one.

I also found myself not wanting to click youtube links because there's a good chance I'll spend the next 5 minutes switching apps and vpns and whatnot to make it work.
- can you explain the purpose of buying a google account as compared to just making one yourself with untrue details?
  
  Being overly Paranoia? Can't think of another valid reason.
  
  I have not been able to successfully create any big tech accounts woth any kind of privacy protection, like on a VPN.
- Even better way (which I did) using an email alias, create a dummy account with random details.
I don't think any of the proxies or frontends have a good way around it yet, and google is clearly using it as a way to fuck with said frontends. Best practice suggestion: Every time you get cockblocked by something like this, you must send at least one friendly DM or message to the content creator suggesting they at least put a second copy of their content on a decentralized platform.
I really hope the people who made or at least the ones who maintain grayjay, invidious and piped get to work on bypassing age restriction.

I really want to the internet to go back to the way it was 15 years ago, where nothing was so insanely restricted or controlled.

I hate that all the rich elites of the world are using Orwellian novels as instruction manuals
yt-dlp might do the trick.
- Dammit, i replied to myself. Stupid self!
  
  Doh!
  
  But did you solve your own problem?
- First thing I tried but I think you need to provide it with your YouTube login cookie to download age restricted content.
  
  That sucks, i thought i had used it before to get some music videos.
  
  I think newPipe has an age restriction toggle in its settings, its available on android, not sure about ios, pretty sure not available on desktops.
  
  Its been a while since ive needed to do this.
- Nope, not without a YouTube login to verify age. I just ran into this the other day.
I think grayjay does it
- Last time I checked, it do require login with Google account. It is long time ago tho, so idk if it is still the case.
- not anymore, fiddled with it, it worked without being signed in once, now it doesn't work
Back when invidious generally worked you could bypass age restrictions with it, maybe if you ran an invidious instance or just tried random ones until it works?
inv.nadeko.net try this. But sometimes it is down. My method is freetube over VPN for normal videos and for some geo restricted or unplayable videos I use invidious.
I love daniel.
- Settle down, partner.

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