I realize this is a really silly request, but I absolutely refuse to watch YouTube videos without a proxy frontend let alone logging into a google account.

I’ve been wanting to watch dnsl’s “Fallout RP is serious business” but it’s age restricted.

Does anybody know either of a way to bypass the age restriction or can just send me the video? I’ve tried everything I know short of giving in and signing into YouTube.

  • Mr. Zeus@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    I really hope the people who made or at least the ones who maintain grayjay, invidious and piped get to work on bypassing age restriction.

    I really want to the internet to go back to the way it was 15 years ago, where nothing was so insanely restricted or controlled.

    I hate that all the rich elites of the world are using Orwellian novels as instruction manuals

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    352·
    4 days ago

    You can’t bypass age verification on YouTube.

    yt-dlp still works for age verification content, but you have to pass cookies to it.

    But here’s the video: https://qu.ax/KsDqd.mp4

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    I don’t think any of the proxies or frontends have a good way around it yet, and google is clearly using it as a way to fuck with said frontends. Best practice suggestion: Every time you get cockblocked by something like this, you must send at least one friendly DM or message to the content creator suggesting they at least put a second copy of their content on a decentralized platform.

  • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    I bought a google account for less than $1, used it to log in to pipepipe and nothing else. Then I only use pipepipe when all else fails.

    I haven’t found any other way, even an unreliable one.

    I also found myself not wanting to click youtube links because there’s a good chance I’ll spend the next 5 minutes switching apps and vpns and whatnot to make it work.

    • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      can you explain the purpose of buying a google account as compared to just making one yourself with untrue details?

    • land@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Even better way (which I did) using an email alias, create a dummy account with random details.

  • land@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    4 days ago

    I use GrayJay as my front-end, and it’s got some cool features like age restrictions, SponorBlock, and the return of the Dislike button. Plus, you can even log into your YouTube account.

    • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
      19·
      4 days ago

      I think the question is, can it do all those other things without having to log into your YouTube accoubt?

      • SeekPie@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        Yes.

        The logging in is for getting your subscriptions transferred. Though you could also do the export method on there too.

      • land@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        I use a CSV file that I exported from my Google account a few years back. You can also sync between the phone and desktop app, subscriptions, watch list and playlists.

    • Kiuyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Last time I checked, it do require login with Google account. It is long time ago tho, so idk if it is still the case.

    • Mr. Zeus@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      not anymore, fiddled with it, it worked without being signed in once, now it doesn’t work

    • brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      First thing I tried but I think you need to provide it with your YouTube login cookie to download age restricted content.

      • Maiq@lemy.lolEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        That sucks, i thought i had used it before to get some music videos.

        I think newPipe has an age restriction toggle in its settings, its available on android, not sure about ios, pretty sure not available on desktops.

        Its been a while since ive needed to do this.

          • Mr. Zeus@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Why does youtube suck so much? only a few years ago it was so much easier to access from anything. And now it’s way more restricted

            • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              I think You know the answer and so do I

              .

              Yeah consider this being rickrolled:)

              But yeah, it’s probably capitalism and whatever adjacent to it

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.netEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Back when invidious generally worked you could bypass age restrictions with it, maybe if you ran an invidious instance or just tried random ones until it works?