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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 109 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It'll be super weird to pirate free youtube videos, but I'll fuckin' do it.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

Are they actually free?
Are we maybe misunderstanding YouTube... A company?

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] WeavingSpider@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Grayjay and Newpipe (and its forks) can do that, as well as just watching it like regular youtube, but also the option to select from other platforms - like peertube, as one example - to watch.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

I use FreeTube, but this doesn't seem like a "youtube piracy" solution because it is streaming the content directly from youtube, which can ultimately prevent access; I already am blocked from watching certain videos that require you to be logged in to watch.

The problem is basically, if there is a specific youtube video you want to watch, but youtube insists that you must provide ID to see it, right now I don't think there's actually a lot of recourse for that because there are too many such videos for anyone else to actually host them or offer torrents or anything.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess yt-dlp everything lol

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm assuming that mandatory ID checks would make yt-dlp not work

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unless you have access to an age-verified account(that is not yours), in that case you can just pass the cookies

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

Hunter2, that's your time to shine!

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are going to start permanently banning people from YouTube by ID if that becomes popular enough

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Variously better and worse than a ban from both Uber and Lyft.