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Is it impossible to watch age-restricted YouTube videos wo signing in? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 hours ago by chewgrabonion@lemmy.world to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I've tried invidious and pipepipe/newpipe. E.g. can't watch this rather innocuous short abt fireworks affecting animals https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=3qbR8TqdBjc

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

If you mean directly, yes, IFAIK. At one point youtube-dl could download them.

Someone could probably set up a proxy tied to a bogus account, but I expect that YouTube will block them if it picks up on it.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yeah, for some time now, youtube-dl requires the login cookies being exported from the (logged-in) browser to be able to download restricted videos.

And setting up a proxy will probably not work. They do rate-limiting. Seems they also know which IP addresses belong to residential internet connections and which to datacenters and VPNs and they'll cut off the servers. And with Google you always risk your account being flagged for "suspicious activity". I had that happen to me as well (unrelated to YouTube, though).

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I have attempted to watch a “Hey Ash, watcha playin?” video without signing in and have been unsuccessful. Tried a few different systems with no luck. Yt-dlp could not grab it either. Alternate “tricks” seem too risky.