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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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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Does Invidious work?
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I found some of those download youtube sites do work lol. This one works for me i just tested it https://ytdown.to/en2/
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Bad news, I'm afraid. Tried opening a few restricted videos with PipePipe, FreeTube, tried downloading with yt-dlp, nothing works. YouTube is being locked down.
there used to be a userscript that bypasses it, but sadly it stopped working a few years ago. haven't found a solution since...
Copy a link, paste into an mp4 converter (I use cnvmp3.com), watch from files
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Newpipe doesn't work?
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