YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify the age in EU (2020)

Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by ycuser2 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:46AM (#28379721)

Any ideas how to by pass this? I don't want to give Google my ID or credit card info.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by lord_and_xavier on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:49AM (#28379767)

Freetube https://freetubeapp.io/ gives a private youtube browsing experience and shows age restricted videos

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by amq on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:51AM (#28379795)

Here are quite a few workarounds: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ljp02h/

I imagine all of them will eventually stop working though.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by zinekeller on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:57AM (#28379878)

Some methods don't work inside the EU. The only way to bypass this is to proxy to a country outside EMEA (like Canada) and use the methods listed there.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by namibj on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:35PM (#28383024)

They took my German ID's front with all content blanked that want babe, DoB, and expiration date. Took about an hour in probably done human "review" queue to check this isn't some bot-submission/low-effort fake ID.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by MCTemp12 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:08AM (#28380027)

https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restrictio...

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by slazaro on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @11:30AM (#28381096)

It's not ideal, but if you heavily blur all the info except name (which they probably know already) and birth date (what they're after), they accept it with no problem.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by dspillett on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:34AM (#28380348)

Does youtube-dl or one of its variants get the content or is that somehow blocked by the age check? If the former then you can skip the adverts that way too. Though it would be a bit of manual faf (open page, copy URL, wait, play video from resulting local file) compared to just streaming direct from the youtube page.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by Mindwipe on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:16PM (#28381790)

YouTube-dl doesn't without a proxy but some of the variants do.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by cdiddy2 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:11AM (#28380054)

Does a VPN not work?

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