I was reading through this and forgot I actually was able to download an age restricted YT video about a month ago.
Ill repeat the comment here, in that I used a website called Bilibili with a browser extension called Cat Catcher. It took some fiddling but I was able to not only watch the video on bilibili, but download it with Cat Catcher.
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/5084
Follow this GitHub rabbit hole, long story short it is no longer possible.
No, not at the current moment. Hypothetically someone could set up an array of anonymous Youtube accounts to use explicitly for authentication challenges similar to how Aurora handles Google Play Store downloads, but currently that service doesn't exist for Youtube.
You would need to find an anonymous google account, or create a burner.
Wait that's how Aurora works? jfc I hate smartphones
Yep. You can even see an active account in Aurora app
I feel that.
You would need to find an anonymous google account, or create a burner.
these were dirt cheap on the darkweb circa 2014 and i hope that they still are
these were dirt cheap on the darkweb circa 2014 and i hope that they still are
I don't know how, but I'm sure Ai found a way to increase those prices too. lowkey joking here, but I'm actually scared by the idea this could be true. Edit: I mean so that Ai tools can access those videos as cheap as possible.
every bypass to age-gating at youtube that i've used, tried, or looked at no longer works, and hasn't for awhile.
torrent-tube is relevant, you’d still need someone else to download the video and upload the torrent unfortunately.
Wow! I thought about this for a while, didn't know it already exists, even more so made by Lemmy devs
I remember using some "YouTube video downloader" website (the kind we all used before learning about yt-dl) to download an age-restricted video recently. I had tried several of those kind of sites, and most failed. But one site in particular did allow me to successfully download the age-restricted video that I wanted. Unfortunately, I do not remember the exact website that I had used. And honestly, with what I understand about how volatile these YouTube downloader websites are, I wouldn't be surprised if that exact site doesn't even exist by now anyway.
All that to say: try a bunch of YouTube downloader sites. That is unfortunately your best bet at this point. You just have to hope to find one that works with age-restricted videos.
I used BiliBili and .. a browser extension called Cat Catcher to snag a music preformance that got age restricted after the live.
It was a pain, but I got it.
In the other thread for this same question someone mentioned https://ytdownloader.io/
Is there even a way when you do have an account? We have a work Google account..
You can extract your authenticated session cookie from your browser and tell yt-dlp to use it
you could talk a streamer into broadcasting a video
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