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!!
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[–] 23 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I never tried a paid one - might be the next step?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yeah I guess so. I don't have a phone that can run graphene or any other privacy OS so I'm running a sort of "hardened" stock android os 🤣 I just want a random google account to download a couple of apps that require play services in order to function

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