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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 #46

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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."

Related anecdote: A few years ago, my father bought a android tablet to my grand parents (both 85+). After watching them use it for a few minutes, I realized how user hostile the technical world has become: tons of ads popping up and asking for your attention (“click me”, “download x”, “make your device run faster”, etc). This and apps “redesigned” every few month, breaking the workflow they've struggled to learn (th…

> This and apps “redesigned” every few month

This is why my 90++ old completely non-technical mother has been using Linux since the 90s. I set up a very customized fvwm environment with mutt (also customized) and emacs (same) and helped her learn it. The beauty is that nothing has changed at all in over 25 years!

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

#432
post #220

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How did everything end up shaking out? Were the parents on the hook for the credit card bill, or was the credit card company on the hook for issuing a card to Santos L. Helpar?

I think it was a prepaid card.

So then what's the issue here? Honest question. He got birthday money and spent it on things. That's how it's supposed to work. If he then finds that he cannot purchase something else that he wanted because he blew his budget on video games, that's a valuable lesson that everyone needs to learn at some point.

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

#433
post #14

A 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!

I am not going to send my ID card to Google period. Neither will I give them a credit card # unless I'm ... you know ... paying for one of their services. Which isn't likely to happen either.

Edit: especially since it's US age ratings which have no connection to EU age ratings. I ran into it while trying to view some collection of every time Samuel L Jackson says "motherfucker" in a movie. For example Pulp Fiction - which is one of the movies - is rated 18 in the US but ... 12 to 16 in various EU countries?

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

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post #44
post #14

A 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!

I had this happen with the old "Ah fuck, I can't believe you've done this" video. I'm not sure why exactly that has an age restriction, or why I'd give Google some ID to watch a vintage Youtube meme. I presume it's because their ML detected 'fuck' in the audio. Note to Google: Ah fuck, I can't believe you've done this.

Hearing the funny man say fuck now requires ID, wonderful.

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

#435
post #14

A 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!

I just get a sign in to confirm age. Are you absolutely certain you weren't on a third party site?

This is mainly a thing in the EU

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

#436
post #256

Aren't there better websites if you're into age restricted videos?

There are videos that are age restricted because of swearing. Porn isn't the issue here (especially since it's not allowed on YouTube even with age restrictions).

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

#437
post #339

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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.

Three dead trolls in a baggie even made a song about it way back in early 2000s. The privacy song, just fill their database with garbage. Also I'm a 43 year old nun.

Oddly enough, it seems the internet [login forms] have created an uptick in 43 year old nuns.

The church finally has a solution to their clergy loss. ;)

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

#438
post #131

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Lately, they have been good. I don't blame you for mistrusting them because it took at least 4 scandals (I lost track), but they seem to have sorted it out.

Still much worse than just letting parents create an allow-list of channels or videos from any part of YT, including the non-"YouTube Kids" part :-/ It'd be nice to be able to turn them loose on a YouTube that was just educational videos I've curated, no weird toy unboxing shit, without having to, like, maintain my own file server and streaming service.

> without having to, like, maintain my own file server and streaming service.

Why not? Doesn't take that much to downlod the videos and let them watch locally - we are in a thread about youtube-dl after all.

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

#439
post #393

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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…

> But I don't want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. Yes, and I want a pony. We can absolutely discuss how useful or harmful age verification on the internet is, (and your points about tracking are certainly valid) - but fact is that Google implemented it. It is not youtube-dl's job to circumvent that. Their responsibility is letting me download the video…

It's just FAANG being FAANG. Why make working software when you can make non-working software?

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

#440

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…

You can't produce value around content without artificial scarcity. In this case, Google/YT centralizes distribution and access, so that in order to consume content you must pay a fee (watch ads, provide personality data, etc.) This has both good and bad sides to it. On the good side, it means people can make money as YouTube creators. This subsidizes the enormous volume of content that makes the creators no money. O…

> You can't produce value around content without artificial scarcity.

Patronage or crowdfunding can work even if the content is released publically.

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