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!!
    • hector@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

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

        • hector@lemmy.today
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          3 days ago

          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.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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    9 days 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…

  • rmerc@lemmy.ml
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    10 days 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.