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

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Post by [deleted] »

Spivak wrote: post #225
z0r wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I grew up with libraries and video stores for access to analogous materials and didn't have regular internet access until 1999. I really don't see why it's reasonable to expect the internet to supplant parenting duties that would have been reasonably expected in the pre-Youtube state of affairs. If you want to control what your kids see, don't let them have internet access. This is simply reality. I know that from th…

This isn't supplanting parenting duties, it's giving parents the tools to actually parent. Without this your options are basically no YouTube access at all or full YouTube access with zero granularity in-between. The default for logged-out people has to be restrictive or else it's trivial to bypass. The current rules for porn, alcohol, and mature games are a joke and have been since their inception. Everyone being bo…

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

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Post by rolph »

actual HTML title == [[YouTube] Age verification issues - Can't download video. · Issue #28578 · ytdl-org/youtube-dl · GitHub]

actual rendered title == [YouTube] Age verification issues - Can't download video. #28578]

apparently this issue was closed

>> Suika commented Mar 29, 2021:

You are probably connecting from EU, right?

A change to YT was announced ~4 month that there will be extra steps for age verification in EU, iirc.

If you connect from outside of EU, it should work.<<

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

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Post by thu2111 »

pmoriarty wrote: post #40
formerly_proven wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

It's definitely not in Google's interest to require an action as awkward and engagement-killing as ID verification. They work very hard to not take such drastic steps.

Such requirements are being driven by governments who don't care at all about user convenience, only extending their control over people whilst blaming the private sector for "making" them do it.

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

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Post by thu2111 »

JI00912 wrote: post #257
sbarre wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's literally discussed and linked at the top of this thread.

Umm, no. The start of this thread just a link to joinpeertube and the top comment has no source or link of any kind. So I gather you don't have any source either then.

He means the discussion of the article. The change is due to new EU legislation, links are provided elsewhere in the (whole) thread.

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

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Post by Aerroon »

JI00912 wrote: post #257
sbarre wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's literally discussed and linked at the top of this thread.

Umm, no. The start of this thread just a link to joinpeertube and the top comment has no source or link of any kind. So I gather you don't have any source either then.

It's this thing that's at fault: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/revision-a...

Google even says so: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en

>The Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is an EU-wide coordination of national legislation on audiovisual media – both traditional TV broadcasts and on-demand services. Recently, AVMSD was revised to extend certain rules to video sharing platforms (VSPs).

>In line with AVMSD, you may be asked to re-verify your date of birth when watching age-restricted videos. Follow the prompts to submit an image of a valid ID or credit card.

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

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Post by Aerroon »

Spivak wrote: post #222
Aerroon wrote: post #173

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Say I'm a regular member of society and want to watch the trailer for a new Battlefield game. How should I do this? YouTube asks me to give them pictures of my ID for that. This is the mechanism that will be used for this right now. And it's all in the name of "protecting" children. This isn't some future hypothetical - it has already happened. I've been barred from a whole slew of content on YouTube because of this.…

I mean this already existed prior to YouTube, it's just that before you couldn't access the 18+ trailer at all outside of an R rated movie theater or late night TV because it had to be made for prime time and print where content restrictions were enforced. I don't see this as any different than a theater asking to see your ID before letting your buy an R rated movie ticket. I sympathize that it's annoying hell but yo…

Yes, it existed before and it was moronic even then. But recent EU regulation pushes it onto streaming sites too and that's a different beast altogether considering the enormous amount of tracking that goes on.

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

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Post by benhurmarcel »

slazaro wrote: post #57

It's pretty infurating that I've had a Youtube account since 2006 (15 years ago), and now they're asking me whether i'm over 18. A basic calculation on their end could filter the accounts based on age, given the TOS of when they were created (e.g. if the TOS specified that I must be over 13, a 2006 account would mean I'm at least 28, therefore automatically verified).

I literally pay a monthly subscription to Google and they still wanted me to pay $0 once to show that I had a card.

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

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Post by Aerroon »

vineyardmike wrote: post #264
Aerroon wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would much rather allow kids to watch trailers of Battlefield than to have to give Google pictures of my ID/passport. But that ship has sailed now. This is the new reality and it'll probably be applied to more websites in the future.

Your kids? Also, there’s much more content on YouTube that most parents would absolutely not want their kids seeing than a battlefield trailer.

If I had kids? Yes.

My exploration online was effectively unrestricted while I was growing up. The internet had far more objectionable content back then that was easily accessible. I don't feel that it had any real negative effect on me. Why would I worry myself sick over my kids seeing it?

Also, even if there is more objectionable content than a Battlefield trailer, the Battlefield trailer is restricted by the same rules. And if everyone else in your kids' friend group is talking about Battlefield then you'd be excluding your kid from it by limiting access to that. And if you don't limit access to it, then you get all the other 'objectionable' content too.

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

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Post by alphabet9000 »

As someone else mentioned in the comments, the "get cookies.txt" [0] extension works to circumvent the age restricted measure and i have been using it with success for weeks now.

get the extension, export the cookies.txt file to a folder, then run youtube-dl in that folder with:

youtube-dl --cookies cookies.txt https://youtu.be/id

it works as of right this minute [1] and in my experience that cookie continues to work even if you log out of your account in the browser and log back in etc

i'm trying to imagine a way to have a more permanent solution, maybe if youtube-dl provided some kind of login prompt type thing to enter some your credentials to virtually log in, although i imagine that would start to be another cat and mouse game of it working and then not working.

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

[1] https://i.jollo.org/ytdl.gif

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