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!!
  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
    1·
    2 hours ago

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

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    23·
    18 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.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      17 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)

      • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        15 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).

  • rmerc@lemmy.ml
    20·
    18 hours ago

    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.

    • SteakSneak@retrolemmy.com
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Did you try paid SMS services or just the free ones? I tried some listed on fmhy but didn’t try actually paying for a number