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

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Post by NetOpWibby » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 4:06 AM UTC

qu4z-2 wrote: post #349

qwerty456127 wrote: post #316

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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 ran into this earlier this week when I went to watch Kung Fury, a free movie hosted on YouTube which is now age restricted. I pretty much just couldn't. Luckily the Pirate Bay exists, and now I have a permanent copy which is what I probably should've done anyway. I guess this means I watch less YouTube, which is probably better for me in the long run. But like hell I'm signing in.

What an excellent film

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

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Post by rrjanbiah » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 4:27 AM UTC

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…

Curious... Do we have any bugmenot like cookies sharing site?

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

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Post by alphabet9000 » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 4:52 AM UTC

rrjanbiah wrote: post #412

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…

Curious... Do we have any bugmenot like cookies sharing site?

this is a great idea.. i wonder how rapidly youtube cracks down on IPs being used across 1 cookie in a short period of time

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

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Post by bencollier49 » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 5:02 AM UTC

nonameiguess wrote: post #187

bencollier49 wrote: post #128

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I honestly believe that there's a market for people who want to watch a series of related music videos, and not have "A Vocal Coach Reacts to Silk Sonic!" pushed onto them.

YouTube itself has this. music.youtube.com Not sure how it is implemented. It seems to just identify and catalog all of the videos uploaded to normal YouTube where the audio track consists of a single continuous musical track. It's not official music videos.

Thanks for the link. I gave it a try. Even songs which do have videos appear not to have videos on that service, oddly.

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

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Post by colethedj » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 5:22 AM UTC

judge2020 wrote: post #12

nonamesleft wrote: post #2

But https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (fork of youtube-dl) can, so it shouldn't be a problem forever for youtube-dl either?

I don't see a mention of yt-dlp in the yt-dl issue tracker, so why is this? Does dlp autocorrect videos to the youtube-nocookie.com embed (as stated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27354423 ) ?

Nope. There's two issues being talked about here. If you are in the EU then you have to provide cookies from an age-verified account. Otherwise, the age-gate bypass still works afaik. But the latter is broken in the current youtube-dl release (fixed in yt-dlp).

Also, yt-dl doesn't like yt-dlp to be mentioned on their issue tracker from what I hear.

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

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Post by int_19h » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 5:25 AM UTC

megablast wrote: post #407

asdff wrote: post #340

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I can't believe it has to come to this to get a usable device for a growing segment of the population. Old people practically need their own IT department fighting for their best interests with how predatory tech companies have been towards them. They are SOL if their kid isn't a techie.

Or buy an ipad.

iOS ecosystem also has a problem with gratuitous UX changes. E.g. that physical Home button on early models was a godsend for non-tech users - if they found themselves somewhere unfamiliar, it was always there as an escape hatch, without doing anything non-obvious like swiping from the edge. And then Apple killed it.

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

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Post by int_19h » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 5:30 AM UTC

sebmellen wrote: post #285

benbristow wrote: post #279

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Must be. On major mobile networks in the UK, SIM cards/data plans by default have an adult content internet filter enabled. Blocks stuff like pornography (obviously) and even some other various adult age-focused content like gaming websites. (I've seen the EA Battlefield/Call Of Duty websites blocked before) Usually if you try to access, say, pornhub.com, it'll redirect (ala. WiFi captive portal style) to an internal…

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.

The whole "asbo" thing that they had for a long time was also in a similar vein. And the ability of even fairly low ranking police commissioners to declare some area as having "high chance of violence" temporarily, which allows them to stop and search people without warrants or anything like that - basically like stop & frisk in NYC, but without the pushback.

On the upside, following UK police twitter accounts can be sorta hilarious in a sad way, because they regularly post stuff like this: https://twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/974645778558980096...

All that said, it's not really totalitarian. A police state for sure, and an authoritarian uber nanny state, but totalitarianism is a whole different ballgame.

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

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Post by int_19h » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 5:37 AM UTC

dane-pgp wrote: post #355

danShumway wrote: post #333

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> I don't think it's on my to find a better implementation for YouTube, but with all the smart engineers they have access to, I would think they could come up with something less intrusive. The sentiment behind this sentence is the driving motivation for almost every single bad tech law on the Internet. Programmers aren't magic, there are limits to what they can and can't do. Almost every bad tech law starts out with…

> it comes from this belief that if you just require things, they'll magically happen We should be somewhat sympathetic that non-experts may not know the difference between a possible and an impossible technical goal, and we have to accept that for a politician there isn't much electoral advantage to be gained from trying to explain the difference to their voters. However, each time I hear an impossible goal proposed…

They should just do it at night, duh.

(as it happens, that's the premise of a Soviet political joke from the Apollo era)

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

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Post by asdff » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 5:49 AM UTC

int_19h wrote: post #416

megablast wrote: post #407

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Or buy an ipad.

iOS ecosystem also has a problem with gratuitous UX changes. E.g. that physical Home button on early models was a godsend for non-tech users - if they found themselves somewhere unfamiliar, it was always there as an escape hatch, without doing anything non-obvious like swiping from the edge. And then Apple killed it.

Another frustrating thing on the notch devices is that they put the control center on top instead of the bottom. Years of muscle memory down the drain.

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

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Post by xref » Wed, Jun 02, 2021, 5:57 AM UTC

vasco wrote: post #339

qwerty456127 wrote: post #316

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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'm born in whatever far back year forms will let me choose in most internet services, over a 100 years old in a lot of cases, I assumed everyone did this.

On a site like HN I assumed everybody’s birthday was Unix epoch 0