Youtube will try to force a sign in otherwise which is bad for privacy.
invidious can’t do it sometimes.
replacing ‘https://www.youtube.com’ with these sometimes work:
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https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass
Or you may try odysee.com there’s no age restrictions, and many creators are moving there.
bonus: they don’t censor free speech like youtube
yt-dlp should allow downloading videos
Freetube
mpv with appropriate plug-ins.
Various invidious instances.
you can also use https://piped.kavin.rocks
What is that? invidious?
https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped this apparently. Looks similar to invidious, but it’s not the same
You could also use mpv -
Making a token account for it works, except in countries where they require ID.
I use yewtu.be and never get asked for age as i do in YouTube.
But yewtu.be doesn’t let you download anymore
youtube-dl can’t solve that?