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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by jtbayly on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:00AM (#27355373)
Even if you locked them down to YT for kids, do you honestly trust Google to accurately decide what is acceptable for kids? Yeah, no. I don't. (Remember when they had porn in there?)

So how does this help, anyway?

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by sp332 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:26AM (#27355899)
Lately, they have been good. I don't blame you for mistrusting them because it took at least 4 scandals (I lost track), but they seem to have sorted it out.
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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by handrous on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:19PM (#27356940)
Still much worse than just letting parents create an allow-list of channels or videos from any part of YT, including the non-"YouTube Kids" part :-/

It'd be nice to be able to turn them loose on a YouTube that was just educational videos I've curated, no weird toy unboxing shit, without having to, like, maintain my own file server and streaming service.

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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by account42 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:05AM (#27367242)
> without having to, like, maintain my own file server and streaming service.

Why not? Doesn't take that much to downlod the videos and let them watch locally - we are in a thread about youtube-dl after all.

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