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by version_five 1587 days ago
YouTube wants me to sign in to watch it because it might be inappropriate for me
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gexla 1587 days ago
It probably should be. I mentioned it's NSFW. His Quentin Tarantino movies were graphic and violent.
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m348e912 1587 days ago
I don't agree with making you sign in either. Here's a mirror: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=c0LBi1MHoaU
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pabs3 1587 days ago
The combination of mpv and yt-dlp lets you watch it without signing in. Not sure how they achieve that though.
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jhugo 1587 days ago
YouTube's CDN doesn't enforce authentication, only the UI, account backends, etc do. So if you can determine the URL(s) for retrieving the video from their CDN, you can watch it without auth.
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shrimp_emoji 1587 days ago
Apparently, youtube-dl can't do this anymore (assuming it ever did), since trying to download an age-gated (which was my strat) video fails where it used to succeed.
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pabs3 1587 days ago
It still works in yt-dlp though.
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