watching age-restricted videos from youtube without google account
from cardamon@leminal.space to privacy@lemmy.ml on 15 Feb 18:41
https://leminal.space/post/32064954

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

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unknowablenight@piefed.social on 20 Feb 03:37 next collapse

Copy a link, paste into an mp4 converter (I use cnvmp3.com), watch from files

cardamon@leminal.space on 22 Feb 10:21 next collapse

sheesh!! thanks🤍

hector@lemmy.today on 22 Feb 15:28 collapse

I think I’ve had those file converting sites block age restricted videos from there too.

unknowablenight@piefed.social on 22 Feb 16:04 collapse

I haven’t had a problem with cnvmp3. It worked last time that I tried to do it.

hector@lemmy.today on 22 Feb 16:22 collapse

I will have to try that one I wrote it down, every time I check they are different, and they used to work better than they do since the enshittening started in earnest in 2021. The search engines don’t give you most of them anymore I think is the big problem, I used to use these mp3juices that now are tough and time consuming to get to work and or find stuff.

But I started writing down ones that work so I don’t need the search engines as we can’t trust them, so thanks I will try that one.

Zoma@sh.itjust.works on 16 Feb 21:13 next collapse

I found some of those download youtube sites do work lol. This one works for me i just tested it ytdown.to/en2/

cardamon@leminal.space on 22 Feb 10:21 collapse

woww!!! 😌

rmerc@lemmy.ml on 15 Feb 20:14 collapse

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.

hector@lemmy.today on 22 Feb 15:29 collapse

Boycott them.