<story><title>YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos</title><url>https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toto444</author><text>A few days ago, I clicked an age restricted video on Youtube and usually I just state that I am above 18 but now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it.&lt;p&gt;I am not going to send this just to watch some random video clip that users have declared not appropriate to a young audience because it features a zombie. Seriously!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swiley</author><text>You work so hard explaining to your friends good infosec practice like &lt;i&gt;not just typing their credit card in because some site wants to &amp;quot;verify their age&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; and then Google and Apple just go and fuck around with stuff like this.&lt;p&gt;At this point the best advice you can give your friends is &amp;quot;stay the fuck away from computers unless you&amp;#x27;re willing to sit down and read a bunch of FOSSS manuals.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos</title><url>https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toto444</author><text>A few days ago, I clicked an age restricted video on Youtube and usually I just state that I am above 18 but now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it.&lt;p&gt;I am not going to send this just to watch some random video clip that users have declared not appropriate to a young audience because it features a zombie. Seriously!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related, I can’t install my telco’s app because it’s region-locked to Australia and Google Play Store seems to think I’m in the USA—never mind that my account was created in Australia over fifteen years ago and it’s only been to America twice for a total of less than three months, and that my phone was bought in Australia and set up in Australia, as was my first phone. Seems like a case of an absurd and harmful default. Anyway, the only way to convince them I’m in Australia is to add a billing method. Nope. I’m not giving them billing details. (Now if only the telco would unlock it, as their support staff said they were working on, never mind that the whole process takes less than five minutes and I gave them the help page over a month ago. Or better still, if the telco would just provide a web interface like literally &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; else does, rather than just Apple and Google Android apps. Sigh. If only they weren’t the cheapest for my needs by a large margin.)&lt;p&gt;Also related to the whole age thing, I just started the Google Settings app half an hour ago for other reasons and it triggered a notification asking me to enter my birthday “to help us comply with the law”, expressed even more strongly on the page the notification takes you to as “Your date of birth is missing. This info is needed to comply with the law.”, with a “learn more about why Google asks for this info” link to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;accounts&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;1733224?hl=en-GB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;accounts&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;1733224?hl=en-GB&lt;/a&gt;, where the only sort of thing that they could conceivably be referring to as a legal compliance matter would be the minimum age of 13, and… I’ve been using that account for longer than that anyway.</text></comment>