Login alone does not help for age restricted videos.
First step towards automatically stop using youtube. It their choice really.
Yes, I should have added and verified your age. But none of that is a youtube-dl matter, there is no magic video download link hidden in the page source.
Of course this is a youtube-dl matter. It could easily circumvent this by pretending to embed the video.
No I've also had age restricted embedded links throw an error with something like "this video cannot be played here" and linking to non embedded player link.
>It could easily circumvent this by pretending to embed the video.
It doesn't work anymore. It did when I wrote the above comment. Thanks for downvoting.
You believe an appreciable number of people will stop using Youtube over this?
people wont complain imo, but a few will be lazy enough to not send their ID or put their card info
If they have to give over their CC number (which some people are reporting) maybe a significant numner will stop watching age restricted videos.
My issue is there is no alternative. I dont want to stop watching or hurt particular creators (not that one person would make much difference, but I enjoy their content) and Youtube is the only option. Even supporting them on Patreon the videos they share are still hosted on youtube... what am I to do about that? For a few (LTT for example has Floatplane) there are alternatives, but there is no app for it to allow me to cast to the TV... so either way I am screwed. The world desperately needs a YouTube competitor. I would be quite happy with a service like Floatplane where I can pick which creators to support, so long as there is a sort of 'preview tier' to help discover new creators which is add based and maybe even time limited.
The economics of it are not good. An ad-supported YouTube competitor won't be able to survive if early adopter ("techie" types) are all using adblockers.