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watching age-restricted videos from youtube without google account (leminal.space)

submitted 2 days ago by cardamon@leminal.space to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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does anyone know a good workaround for watching age-restricted videos from youtube without being forced to having a google account? i've tried

a few browser extensions (very old ones) who promised to solve it. didn't work.
downloading them through classic youtube downloading services. didn't work.
switching to nsfwyoutube.com/url . didn't work does anyone know of a working solution right now? thanks a lot in advance!!

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[–] rmerc@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've found no way to do this, tried everything. The question for me has changed to "how do I create a dummy google account for instances when I do seem to need to log in" and I've pretty much given up on this too. They require a phone number; I haven't been able to get them to accept any kind of temporary number service/app I've found online, I could try harder to acquire some kind of more private burner phone or sim card but I feel like they'd just try to verify me once I no longer have access to the number and I'd get frozen out.

[–] SteakSneak@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you try paid SMS services or just the free ones? I tried some listed on fmhy but didn't try actually paying for a number

[–] rmerc@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never tried a paid one - might be the next step?

[–] SteakSneak@retrolemmy.com 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah I guess so. I don't have a phone that can run graphene or any other privacy OS so I'm running a sort of "hardened" stock android os 🤣 I just want a random google account to download a couple of apps that require play services in order to function