YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by tosbalok2 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:37AM (#27355106)

Are you, by chance, using Brave? I've noticed that recently with Brave as well. Didn't seem to happen in Chrome even when viewing the same videos on the same machine.

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by rorykoehler on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:53AM (#27356462)

Firefox. Dark pattern to get people to use Chrome?

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by jwitthuhn on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:31PM (#27359184)

I've also been seeing this in Firefox for the past couple weeks or so.

The video quality will default to "Auto-1080p" or similar but it will be visibly much worse than 1080p quality. Switching to 1080p manually seems to be the only way to get good quality.

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by GreenWatermelon on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:26PM (#27362777)

This has been the case for as far back as I can remember.

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by danaris on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:28PM (#27357089)

I've had the same experience on Safari—in addition to the issue with Find no longer working in Google Docs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27351855).

I strongly suspect that at least part of the reason for these is to discourage people from using Google's properties with browsers other than Chrome (whether it was the reason for creating them, or just noted as a benefit for refusing to fix them once they were identified).

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by Engineering-MD on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:06PM (#27357804)

I suspect this is the real cause. They did it with search, makes sense they would do it with other areas as well.

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