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

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Post by Mehdi2277 »

delusional wrote: post #319
kllrnohj wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm so tired of tech people saying "it has to suck because the law requires it", when they clearly haven't read it. [..] The AVMSD isn't new, it was codified in 2010. It has a website[1] You know, if you were going to rant about people not reading things, you probably should have first validated your own assumptions. AVMSD was just updated ( https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/revision-a... ) which ju…

> if you were going to rant about people not reading things, you probably should have first validated your own assumptions I did, but I didn't stumble on this revision. Now that you linked it, I see hints everywhere that I should have noticed the first time around. Thanks for bringing it up. Although, I'm rather unhappy if my rant was taken to be about reading comprehension though. It really wasn't. I'm annoyed at pe…

I doubt it. I've worked in a couple different social media companies and default age system is ml guessing unless you do something extreme like this. That gives you reasonable accuracy, but still very noticeable error that's a lot worse than id requirements. It's fairly hard to have confident age especially when a very high percent of people lie about there age if you just ask directly. I remember hearing a number like half of people underage just lie at work although unsure how serious that stat was. There were engineers that did spend projects on better age modeling as other ways just seemed unviable. If you make a legal requirement well enjoy id requirements.

The main path I can see around this is if the government/some company became accepted standard place for basic profile information. But that's just another id except a digital one. You can probably make a digital id system with good way of specifying which fields you grant to another company. The actual digital id when created will still need a physical id/government check though.

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

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Post by PostOnce »

miles wrote: post #310

The title should be updated to indicate that this change only affects EU-based IP addresses: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom... https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...

It affects me from US and NZ ip addresses.

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

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #316
alphabet9000 wrote: post #309

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…

But I don't want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don't want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what's there but I don't want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just u…

I am not much of a youtube-dl user (I can download fine from YouTube with a few lines of shell script) but I notice youtube-dl tries to send a "consent" cookie for every video even when not logged in. For example:

   cookie: CONSENT=YES+cb.20210328-17-p0.en+FX+203

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

alphabet9000 wrote: post #362
qwerty456127 wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But I don't want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don't want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what's there but I don't want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just u…

maybe one solution might be to create a new youtube account in an incognito browser, and then just use the cookie from that brand new account indefinitely for youtube-dl purposes. that way, the cookie you're using in youtube-dl wouldnt be 'tied' to your real account.

I did this with another Google product and I'd be surprised if they didn't know that both accounts belong to the same person.

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

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Post by throwitaway12 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #316
alphabet9000 wrote: post #309

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…

But I don't want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don't want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what's there but I don't want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just u…

I was going to post something very similar, as I would use it specifically to watch videos that want me to give up information and sign in. I don't find that reasonable, thus I adjust accordingly my taking these countermeasures.

You are being downvoted to suppress your well thought out information. It would be nice if HN had a public ledger of who up or down voted a post. You would click on the post and could see which usernames voted and which way. It would bring much needed transparency to combat these information suppression abuses.

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

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Post by miles »

0xcde4c3db wrote: post #329
miles wrote: post #310

The title should be updated to indicate that this change only affects EU-based IP addresses: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom... https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...

It's definitely affecting at least some US users some of the time.

As remitamine explained[1]:

> it's not about the issue not related to the US, it's that youtube won't allow access to the video when you're accessing a non-embedable age-restricted video from the EU with passing the new age verification requirement, youtube-dl can't simply bypass this condition.

>> I just connected to a US server using VPN, and this is the report i got:

> you didn't pass the cookies.

and fosam amplified[2]:

> If you connect from the EU and have not verified, there is no way without the VPN. If you have already verified your account you can just pass the cookies and download.

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...

[2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

istorical wrote: post #315
sebmellen wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This only reinforces my image of the UK as a long since resigned totalitarian police state — that, along with the huge 1984-esque CCTV posters with giant eyes hanging watchfully over a dreary autumn midday in London.

It's hilarious. If this technology existed 50 years ago you can be sure they'd be filtering out any homosexual content. "We must protect the children from filth" after all. Good old nanny state.

YouTube does just this[1][2].

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/lgbtq-...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17424472/youtube-lgbt-demo...

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

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Post by crocodiletears »

heywherelogingo wrote: post #134

I noticed this. My android phone is also harassing me for proof of birth date ("to help comply with the law"). I previously just signed out of google, but a couple of weeks ago i signed in for some reason, and can no longer find the way to sign out again. Android is the last google thing I use... looks like it's time to finalise the elimination of google. edit: ah, i think i do a remote sing-out from another device.

Leineage and Grapheneos are good alternatives to stock android.

F-droid and Aurora (oss google play store client) have most of the apps you'd need, and most work well enough w/o google play services.

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

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Post by cooperadymas »

throwitaway12 wrote: post #385
qwerty456127 wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But I don't want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don't want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what's there but I don't want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just u…

I was going to post something very similar, as I would use it specifically to watch videos that want me to give up information and sign in. I don't find that reasonable, thus I adjust accordingly my taking these countermeasures. You are being downvoted to suppress your well thought out information. It would be nice if HN had a public ledger of who up or down voted a post. You would click on the post and could see whi…

"I want to maintain my privacy when watching videos."

"I think the site should publicly post a list of users who upvoted and downvoted comments that I feel were wrongly suppressed."

I had to read your comment multiple times to determine whether it was intended to be sarcastic or not.

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