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!!
  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf
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    16 hours ago

    Age-gated vids are login-walled full stop, and I won’t be surprised if the rest of the site gets login-walled at some point too, in addition to the implementation of DRM so you can’t download YT vids anymore, nor use alt clients.

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      15 hours ago

      Grayjay does allow you to use an account only for age gate/content gate authentication, so I wonder if there are any burner or public google accounts that could be repurposed for that (junk because multiple people use them)

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        13 hours ago

        Hmmm… similar to how Aurora store lets you use one of their google accounts to download from play store. Sounds like a good idea for alt clients (though idk if that involves expensive proxying to avoid passing around tokens so maybe not feasible).