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by blfr 1370 days ago
Yes, it's age-gated for me and downloads fine:

    ยป yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=StZcUAPRRac 
    [youtube] StZcUAPRRac: Downloading webpage
    [youtube] StZcUAPRRac: Downloading android player API JSON
    [youtube] StZcUAPRRac: Downloading tv embedded player API JSON
    [youtube] StZcUAPRRac: Downloading web embedded client config
    [youtube] StZcUAPRRac: Downloading player a97e97de
    [youtube] StZcUAPRRac: Downloading web embedded player API JSON
    [info] StZcUAPRRac: Downloading 1 format(s): 248+251
    [download] Destination: Rammstein - Sonne (Official Video)     [StZcUAPRRac].f248.webm
    [download] 100% of 37.25MiB in 00:01 at 28.46MiB/s
    [download] Destination: Rammstein - Sonne (Official Video) [StZcUAPRRac].f251.webm
    [download] 100% of 3.68MiB in 00:00 at 18.70MiB/s
    [Merger] Merging formats into "Rammstein - Sonne (Official Video) [StZcUAPRRac].webm"
    Deleting original file Rammstein - Sonne (Official Video) [StZcUAPRRac].f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
    Deleting original file Rammstein - Sonne (Official Video) [StZcUAPRRac].f248.webm (pass -k to keep)
2 comments

Interesting (and useful). Yt-dlp seems to be quite on top it.
Does this work inside EU? AFAIK that's where the workarounds were being killed (due to AVMSD)
I just gave it a go (now that it's evening and I'm at my own computer), and it works from the Netherlands.

Surprisingly, because just about all the other methods and proxy-sites mentioned in various click-baity articles a search yields have stopped working.

That's amusing, I wonder what bypass yt-dlp is using.