does anyone know a good workaround for watching age-restricted videos from youtube without being forced to having a google account? i’ve tried

  • a few browser extensions (very old ones) who promised to solve it. didn’t work.
  • downloading them through classic youtube downloading services. didn’t work.
  • switching to nsfwyoutube.com/url . didn’t work does anyone know of a working solution right now? thanks a lot in advance!!
  • rmerc@lemmy.ml
    19·
    3 个月前

    I’ve found no way to do this, tried everything. The question for me has changed to “how do I create a dummy google account for instances when I do seem to need to log in” and I’ve pretty much given up on this too. They require a phone number; I haven’t been able to get them to accept any kind of temporary number service/app I’ve found online, I could try harder to acquire some kind of more private burner phone or sim card but I feel like they’d just try to verify me once I no longer have access to the number and I’d get frozen out.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
    4·
    3 个月前

    there used to be a userscript that bypasses it, but sadly it stopped working a few years ago. haven’t found a solution since…

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 个月前

    Bad news, I’m afraid. Tried opening a few restricted videos with PipePipe, FreeTube, tried downloading with yt-dlp, nothing works. YouTube is being locked down.