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[–] 117 points 11 months ago (14 children)

It'll be super weird to pirate free youtube videos, but I'll fuckin' do it.

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    I guess yt-dlp everything lol

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    I'm assuming that mandatory ID checks would make yt-dlp not work

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Unless you have access to an age-verified account(that is not yours), in that case you can just pass the cookies

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    They are going to start permanently banning people from YouTube by ID if that becomes popular enough

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Grayjay and Newpipe (and its forks) can do that, as well as just watching it like regular youtube, but also the option to select from other platforms - like peertube, as one example - to watch.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I use FreeTube, but this doesn't seem like a "youtube piracy" solution because it is streaming the content directly from youtube, which can ultimately prevent access; I already am blocked from watching certain videos that require you to be logged in to watch.

    The problem is basically, if there is a specific youtube video you want to watch, but youtube insists that you must provide ID to see it, right now I don't think there's actually a lot of recourse for that because there are too many such videos for anyone else to actually host them or offer torrents or anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I built a little Python app that's just a big Download button on top of yt-dlp. Copy the link, hit the button, it downloads the video to my Jellyfin folder so I can watch YouTube videos on Apple TV without having to tolerate ads every three minutes.

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