nsfwyoutube works around that restriction.

Personally, if YouTube asks me for ID, I'll leave the platform too, pulling down all favorites videos before and rehosting them somewhere else instead.

I feel like they'll just close the loophole that allows nsfwyoutube to work, then we'll actually have to confront the situation instead of having a work around.

I hadn't heard of nsfwyoutube. Thanks!

Don't watch them at all.

I don't already, because I don't log in to what YouTube videos. But the article said that more videos were likely to be limited to age-verified accounts, and that identification would be done by machine, which tells me that more and more videos are going to require being logged in first.

I've already seen over the last couple of months that YouTube insists on prompting me to log in, so I figure there's a larger movement at Google to tie viewers to actual people/accounts - almost certainly to improve advertising revenue.

So at some point there will likely be something I want to watch which is "age restricted" or "for premiere accounts" or something like that, which once upon a time would have been available to anyone.

mpv bypasses age restriction (via youtube-dl)

> via youtube-dl

... for now. :(

Replace 'you' with 'hook' in the url.