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YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

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Re: YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

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Post by bsdetector »

bruiseralmighty wrote: post #91

Hmm, it's such a shame that we have a single point of failure for so much of internet culture, not to mention people's actual creative lives. This is one of the reasons I started using youtube-dl. I wanted to create an independent backup of all my favorite creators and contributors in the event that they have to leave or delete their channels. This content should belong to everyone. I wish I could trust that all my f…

I suppose the next step will be to turn on DRM for age-protected videos, which few will even notice since Widevine is installed everywhere.

Soon after they'll turn it on for all videos, making it nearly impossible for normal people to save any videos and making it illegal to do so in the US.

If there's anything you care about seeing in the future, proactively download it now at the highest quality while it's still possible to do so.

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Post by jdofaz »

moogleii wrote: post #100
swiley wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You work so hard explaining to your friends good infosec practice like not just typing their credit card in because some site wants to "verify their age" and then Google and Apple just go and fuck around with stuff like this. At this point the best advice you can give your friends is "stay the fuck away from computers unless you're willing to sit down and read a bunch of FOSSS manuals."

Interesting, when does Apple ask for a cc for age verification? I don't think I've come across that UI. Edit: Looks like it might be an EU thing?

tv.apple.com did for me when trying to play a video

Re: YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

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Post by GlitchMr »

anfogoat wrote: post #182
jeroenhd wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK the age restriction credit card thing (inside the EU) is the result of some stupid law change (the Audiovisual Media Services Directive). Google probably doesn't want to validate users' age (because selling ads to impressionable kids is very lucrative) but they have to now.

Apparently you'll need to scan an ID if you don't have a credit card, and I bet the EU has millions of young adults without a credit card. Either way, the end result is that you cannot use a video service without exposing your real identity to the service provider. And for what? Is there an epidemic of video clips wrecking children's minds I'm not aware of? Lacking that, this doesn't seem even remotely justified. All…

> Is there an epidemic of video clips wrecking children's minds I'm not aware of?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

Re: YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

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Post by retSava »

bencollier49 wrote: post #34

I'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.

This, and increasing tendency to suggest the same kind of stuff I've already seen, aka feeding the echo chamber. Also quite a bit of stuff that I've actually _have_ seen.

Re: YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

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Post by NiceWayToDoIT »

I had a similar issue few days ago, but managed to do it with downloading my youtube account cookies with Chrome extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt/bga...

This is the command I have used: ./youtube-dl -f best -a test.txt --cookies ./youtube.com.cookies

-a test.txt - i had a bunch of URL in text file.

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Post by mindslight »

pkulak wrote: post #89
dfxm12 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On one hand, people have given up their credit card for worse pre-Internet or outside of the Internet (like "free" or nearly free trials that turn into a subscription service). On another, Google already has a lot of peoples' credit card numbers by way of Google Pay. Does this expose those people to any more risk?

The problem isn't that Google is going to do something bad with your credit card, it's that because it's Google, they are training people to be okay with it everywhere else. Like when my bank sends me an email with a link to an external domain because I have a "secure" message.

Actually Google is going to do something very bad with your credit card - link your online nym to your meatspace identity so they can better surveil you. That's much worse than having to deal with a few fraudulent charges, which at most requires mailing in an affidavit.

Re: YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

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Post by keymone »

jdofaz wrote: post #232
moogleii wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, when does Apple ask for a cc for age verification? I don't think I've come across that UI. Edit: Looks like it might be an EU thing?

tv.apple.com did for me when trying to play a video

What videos are free to watch on there?
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