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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by southerntofu on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:44AM (#27355178)
The only possibility is to get out of Youtube (and other walled gardens) as soon as possible. Talk to your favorite content producers about Peertube, maybe setup an instance with some friends if you're sure you can handle that for the coming decade and not close down in 6 months time.

Both viewers and producers are heavily dissatisfied with Youtube. Time to move on.

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by ars on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:12PM (#27359784)
If you allow adult videos without age verification you'll get shut down.

YouTube actually allowing adult videos is not something to diss. The fact that they need age verification is the price for it, the alternative is removing all those videos.

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