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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:35PM (#27362825)
I am not much of a youtube-dl user (I can download fine from YouTube with a few lines of shell script) but I notice youtube-dl tries to send a "consent" cookie for every video even when not logged in. For example:

   cookie: CONSENT=YES+cb.20210328-17-p0.en+FX+203
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