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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 63 »

Seattle3503 wrote: post #326
63 wrote: post #323

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This feels a bit overdramatic. You can remove videos from your watch history and, in my experience, YouTube will cease to give you recommendations based on them. You could also create a separate account used solely for watching videos with YouTube-dl instead of using your main one if you're worried about recommendations. I agree that it sucks that a workaround is necessary, but I don't think this particular one is wo…

Does this work in practice? Most websites require text verification for accounts. With that they can just link separate accounts in the back end.

It works for me in practice. YouTube definitely are capable of linking separate accounts in the back end, but in my experience they don't do so for recommendations. I have a separate account specifically for watching a given type of content and I don't receive any of its recommendations on my main account. Now, whether or not they use linking to give advertisements or sell data I'm not sure, but at that point they can link based on IP anyway and we're talking about a separate issue.

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Post by iggldiggl »

swiley wrote: post #272
topkai22 wrote: post #252

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It's actually the spotifization of pop music- spotify pays per song not per minute, so artists are incentivized to make shorter songs.

I'd argue it's actually just part of a very long trend.

Compared to classical music certainly, but between the 60s and the 90s the average song length did increase again: https://www.vox.com/2014/8/18/6003271/why-are-songs-3-minute...

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Post by wyager »

kowlo wrote: post #78
wyager wrote: post #59

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This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.

I hope I won't be considered presumptuous, but I suspect you don't have children? It is simply impossible to monitor absolutely everything.

Cool, so don't let them freely browse the internet if you're that worried.

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Post by wyager »

sp332 wrote: post #136
wyager wrote: post #59

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This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.

It's not exactly an age restriction, it's just getting permission from a parent. Either the parent puts in their ID information or they don't. Age restriction would be like movie theaters banning minors from certain movies.

Who cares about the age restriction? The issue here is obviously having to put in government ID to use the internet.

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Post by wyager »

kube-system wrote: post #164
wyager wrote: post #59

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This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.

The same argument you are using is the justification for this. “It’s should be the parents decision to allow children to watch this content, not Google”

Parents' authority over their children does not extend to forcing random strangers to enter government ID to use the internet.

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Post by wyager »

Spivak wrote: post #81
wyager wrote: post #59

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This is parents’ job, not Google’s. If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.

Sounds good. Say I'm a non-technical parent that wants to give my child access to YouTube but not allow them to watch content that they're not old enough to consume on their own. How should I do this? I want to give them the freedom to explore topics they're interested in so downloading some pre-approved videos isn't going to work. And my kid is smart and will realize that any account-specific setting can trivially b…

If you're concerned about this, stop letting your kids use a computer unsupervised. This seems like a no-brainer to me.

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Post by ric2b »

mrweasel wrote: post #127
manigandham wrote: post #99

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It doesn't make sense for a trillion-dollar company known for some of the best software engineering. There are remarkable lapses in UX with Google products.

Someday I hope to read an article or watch a talk explaining Googles approach to UX. The best UX in a Google apps seems to be Gmail, and that’s honestly not that good either. Google is able to build insanely complicated infrastructure, design cool languages, they produced fantastic backend software and the they completely forget that people need to interact with it.

The best UX is in products they killed, like Inbox or Play Music.

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Post by crummy »

duckfang wrote: post #142
MisterTea wrote: post #83

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This is clearly Google pushing $12/month youtube red.

redtube you say? redtube.com is a porn site. Its a poor product naming with google. I'd imagine that's going to make for some consternation.

I think the name is now "YouTube Premium"

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

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…

"... in my experience that cookie continues to work even if you log out..."

Honest question: Should logging out invalidate the cookie for future use. If one of these cookies falls into the wrong hands it grants "evergreen" access to the account. No password needed. I have noticed this behaviour with both Gmail and Facebook. These evergreen cookies makes it very easy to check FB and mail using shell scripts without logging in, which is nice, but it seems like it should be a security issue.

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Post by GreenWatermelon »

jwitthuhn wrote: post #292
rorykoehler wrote: post #165

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Firefox. Dark pattern to get people to use Chrome?

I've also been seeing this in Firefox for the past couple weeks or so. The video quality will default to "Auto-1080p" or similar but it will be visibly much worse than 1080p quality. Switching to 1080p manually seems to be the only way to get good quality.

This has been the case for as far back as I can remember.
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