2026-09-15 21:19 UTC
Replies (11)
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@Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-15 21:58
No, not at the current moment. Hypothetically someone could set up an array of anonymous Youtube accounts to use explicitly for authentication challenges similar to how Aurora handles Google Play Store downloads, but currently that service doesn’t exist for Youtube. You would need to find an anonymous google account, or create a burner.
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@mHtt@lemmy.ca 2026-09-15 22:17
you could talk a streamer into broadcasting a video
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@taco_shale032@lemmy.ml 2026-09-15 22:56
torrent-tube is relevant, you’d still need someone else to download the video and upload the torrent unfortunately.
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@SatyrSack@quokk.au 2026-09-15 21:59
I remember using some “YouTube video downloader” website (the kind we all used before learning about yt-dl) to download an age-restricted video recently. I had tried several of those kind of sites, and most failed. But one site in particular did allow me to successfully download the age-restricted video that I wanted. Unfortunately, I do not remember the exact website that I had used. And honestly, with what I understand about how volatile these YouTube downloader websites are, I wouldn’t be surprised if that exact site doesn’t even exist by now anyway. All that to say: try a bunch of YouTube downloader sites. That is unfortunately your best bet at this point. You just have to hope to find one that works with age-restricted videos.
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@ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2026-09-16 00:46
Is there even a way when you do have an account? We have a work Google account…
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@adarza@lemmy.ca 2026-09-16 02:33
every bypass to age-gating at youtube that i’ve tried or looked at no longer works, and hasn’t for awhile.
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@Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-16 11:41
I was reading through this and forgot I actually was able to download an age restricted YT video about a month ago. Ill repeat the comment here, in that I used a website called Bilibili with a browser extension called Cat Catcher. It took some fiddling but I was able to not only watch the video on bilibili, but download it with Cat Catcher.
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@movie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-16 16:43
Tampermonkey, or maybe greasemonkey, had scripts which made this possible. Im not sure if they still work but it is worth checking out.
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@Dirk@lemmy.ml 2026-09-17 04:06
Make a fake account then?
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@ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2026-09-17 04:14
There are some websites that can do that. If you use them, just make sure you’re using and adblocker.
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@ekZepp@lemmy.world 2026-09-23 11:54
Try Freetube