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 solarkraft on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:04AM (#28379971)

This has been an issue for some months now and has led me to think that it’s already almost too late to save content worth saving from the siloization of YouTube (age restriction also kills youtube-dl).

Is there such a thing as a distributed Youtube archiving project?

There’s no chance content on Youtube will ever be more accessible again.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by selfhoster11 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:16PM (#28381788)

Sadly, I think you may be right. The ship has sailed on a great many channels and videos I had bookmarked. Rescuing whatever we can from this fire and pulling the plug on our own consumption on the platform seems like the wisest course of action.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by donatzsky on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:12AM (#28380058)

It doesn't seem to work for everyone, but YouTube-dl should be able to download age-restricted videos, if you supply it with some fresh cookies.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by dspillett on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:43AM (#28380449)

Surely if the cookies are the answer you need to first give over the ID to get the right values in your cookies for youtube-dl to use, so you are not circumventing handing your ID to Google.

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Re:YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify t... by Mindwipe on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:18PM (#28381816)

Correct.

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