Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026?

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Invidious is usually my go to. You can also try DDG searches in the video tab, but you have to fine s county that doesnt ask for a sign in.

  It’s still possible, but increasingly a huge PITA

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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I understand the sentiment, but gotta say YouTube is one service that is much better when logged in. I have my history and personalization disabled everywhere except YouTube. If I open YouTube’s front page in an incognito tab, it’s wall-to-wall trash on the level of Jerry Springer. Meanwhile I’ve been getting recommendations to my precise taste for years. Lots of good music found in the recs.

  I don’t even open random YouTube links from social media under my account, so as to not mess up the recommendations. Always using an incognito tab instead.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This was changed some time ago. This is YT front page when you’re logged out:

    Image

    Which is exactly what I want to be recommended by YT.

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hmmm, you’re right, it now tells me to “search to get started”. Guess the onslaught of total unmitigated crap as the default page for a region was rather embarrassing. That’s the downside of using the greatest common factor as the starting point.

      Thankfully I have my own interests instead, and taught them to Youtube. Works like a charm.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s less about privacy more about minimalism…

    I don’t want too many accounts to manage… I just wanna watch a bunch of stuff and forget it

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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• GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Invidious is what I’ve been using forever. On mobile, PipePipe and a VPN set to Brazil or France is the best solution.

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  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, thats only true for the, “Please sign in to confirm you’re not a bot.” gate. The age gate is a separate system, that blocks on a per-video rather than per-user basis.

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• communism@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No, afaik every alternative frontend that still works with age-restricted videos works by letting you sign in with a Google account (which defeats the point). I’ve tried a few.

  I just make an account for just the age-restricted videos. FreeTube still works for me for non-age restricted videos (if it doesn’t for you, try changing VPN countries a few times—also you need to restart FreeTube every time you change VPN servers, otherwise it doesn’t work from the new server, idk why).

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I haven’t gotten FreeTube to load anything in forever. What tricks are you using?

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    • communism@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nothing, just using the latest FreeTube. Are you up to date? They’ve pushed out a few releases recently to get around new YouTube trickery. Your VPN server might also be blocked; I’ve had luck with Mullvad’s Swedish servers lately.

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• Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You could try Invidious, or another alternative front end.

  https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

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  • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do any of these instances ever work ?

    I loved invidious for a long time but I just gave up about 6 months ago.

    Even hosting your own instance it was almost always not working waiting for a new release or workaround to be pushed.

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    • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      inv.nadeko.net is the most reliable one, followed by yewtu.be. It gets broken every once in a while, but it always bounces back. I gotta admire that about the Invidious folks.

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    • Semjeza@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I watched the side boobvideo on invaneko, for science, to ensure no barriers to the video.

      But I agree, they’re at best inconsistent.

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• sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Video ownloader it works but not very convenient

  app.ytdown.to/en23/

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  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just using yt-dlp also works, but locally.

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    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t appear to: Image

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    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Does it still work for you? for me it stopped working a while back

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  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tested it, and can second that this does technically work.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That took one agonizing hour to download but the video seems to work.

    Thanks.

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• muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If PipePipe can’t do it I doubt its possible. Unless their exists some region that u can VPN to that doesn’t require said sign in but I doubt it

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• aviationeast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes.

  Don’t Open Youtube

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If only there were videos on YouTube of people cleaning naked or trying transparent clothes.

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can’t find much in terms of a penis.

    This is an unfair double standard:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMOSBZi6cHU&t=43

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=upxEK7dbYBI&t=55

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXvRrLmS1E&t=131

    Finally some real penises:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-U3evvpeDk&t=259

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3FhT10WVNg&t=4

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Side boob much?

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvDVely2Q0g&t=19

    She does! LOL.

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not what OP asked for bur there was a mexican gal that would do carpentry naked

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=b86qqdlAMQQ

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Here’s one with big areolas covered in sand!

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0eYPftTXLM&t=88

    But you know its tits because it looks like sandy tits.

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• sompreno@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can you still vpn to a country that doesn’t have age laws

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Such as?

    I’m in PA, USA and afiak there are no such laws anyways… this is just youtube being a dick

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    • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      VPN with a double hop ending in France or Brazil usually works for me.

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    • sompreno@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ok then did YouTube implement the age checks globally then that sucks a lot

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    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just try different countries in your VPN, you’ll probably stumble on a few that work.

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• enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Seems like internal A/B testing. happened to me few weeks ago in whatever device/front ends. I tried Tor but maybe it is already blocking Tor, still requires sign in. Using VPN finally works in few countries.

  But 3 days later I can use NewPipe as normal.

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Have you tried yt-dlp?

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  • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This doesn’t work on age-restricted videos. You need to pass browser cookies where you have logged in to download such videos.

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  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t appear to work. Image

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I tried to use Seal from Fdroid, which I think uses that yt dlp thing. Doesnt work.

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ive never heard of seal before. No idea if that’s a good software or how it’s using yt-dlp or what version of yt-dlp it is using.

      I would try yt-dlp on a computer with the –verbose flag.

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  • sompreno@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Does this work on age restricted videos?

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unwatched app on ios

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• buttmasterflex@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  PipePipe!

  https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/InfinityLoop1309.NewPipeEnhanced

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  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Still requires you to log in.

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    • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No it doesn’t. I’m using it right now without an account.

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    • hesh@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      PipePipe allows me to watch videos without signing in that ask for “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” on the normal YouTube interface.

      There may be videos that are age-restricted or otherwise account-locked that it can’t access I think, but I haven’t run into them.

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• nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If that video contains some kind of nudity, it is possible to find it on a site like ytboob. Otherwise there is no way to watch it without an account.

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  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It looks like that site needs an account too.

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    • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No. It is working fine for me.

      ytboob.com

      It does not proxy the real video, they download and create a mirror. You do not connect to YouTube at all, directly or indirectly.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Invidious

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tried… it doesn’t work for age restricted videos.

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    • sompreno@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Same with every alternative frontend i’m pretty sure

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• zewm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can you YouTube-dl it?

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