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YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
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#32But https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (fork of youtube-dl) can, so it shouldn't be a problem forever for youtube-dl either?
yt-dlp actually does have the same issue (at least when connecting from the US): ./yt-dlp.sh " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8s72aouNE " [youtube] rR8s72aouNE: Downloading webpage [youtube] rR8s72aouNE: Refetching age-gated info webpage ERROR: Sign in to confirm your age This video may be inappropriate for some users.
Seems to be video-dependent, tried the one you posted, and it seems to fail, but another one "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY4Gz_Axpew" worked with yt-dlp but not youtube-dl.
Guess it's the beginning of the end of watching youtube for me soon.
EDIT: From an EU ip.
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#33Just from YouTube it looks like because YouTube-dl works on pornhub and other XXX sites too.
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#34I've found YouTube increasingly unusable in general over the last few months. It seems to be pushing absolute rubbish at me. There's a gap in the market for a music-only video service.
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#35Am I the only one who didn't even know that youtube had age-restricted videos? Somehow I have managed to watch it for years without ever getting prompted for age confirmation!
It depends on what your needs/interests are.
For example I've worked in medical devices, I had to watch a lot of different types of surgical procedures for a specific application.
A lot of surgical content gets tagged as 'adult' even though it has nothing inappropriate as such.
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#36Am I the only one who didn't even know that youtube had age-restricted videos? Somehow I have managed to watch it for years without ever getting prompted for age confirmation!
YouTube had to crack down on all kinds of videos because of some laws that congress passed under the pretense of "protecting children". For many content creators it's easier to mark your video as age-restricted than to try and comply with child-friendly guidelines. This is also why so many videos now disable the comments section.
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#37A few days ago, I clicked an age restricted video on Youtube and usually I just state that I am above 18 but now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it. I am not going to send this just to watch some random video clip that users have declared not appropriate to a young audience because it features a zombie. Seriously!
Looks like they are trying to reduce the friction to subscribe to Youtube Premium
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#38A few days ago, I clicked an age restricted video on Youtube and usually I just state that I am above 18 but now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it. I am not going to send this just to watch some random video clip that users have declared not appropriate to a young audience because it features a zombie. Seriously!
Same situation here.
This, the 2/3 ads being forced down me which are of no interest at all and the constant upselling of YouTube music and the recent shoot down of ad blockers on the desktop browser front really makes it a hostile place to be a consumer of media. I have experimentally uninstalled the YT app off my phone and not used the web site and I haven’t missed it a bit.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I should have added and verified your age . But none of that is a youtube-dl matter, there is no magic video download link hidden in the page source.
Of course this is a youtube-dl matter. It could easily circumvent this by pretending to embed the video.
>It could easily circumvent this by pretending to embed the video.
It doesn't work.
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#40Title seems misleading, it can download it as long as you provide logged in account info. I think the correct title is: youtube-dl can no longer be used to bypass youtube's age verification checks
> Title seems misleading, it can download it as long as you provide logged in account info ... assuming that you have provided YouTube with a scan of your ID card to prove that you are 18+ ...
"assuming that you have provided YouTube with a scan of your ID card"
I expect that at some point you'll have to prove your identity to use youtube at all, because its in Google's interest to know as much as possible about its users.
Youtube will also probably turn in to a pay-to-view service at some point. They already dominate the video space, and their network effects are enormous, and a huge number of people will pay to continue to get access to that.