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This has been an issue for some months now and has led me to think that it’s already almost too late to save content worth saving from the siloization of YouTub

This has been an issue for some months now and has led me to think that it’s already almost too late to save content worth saving from the siloization of YouTube (age restriction also kills youtube-dl). Is there such a thing as a distributed Youtube archiving project? There’s no chance content on Youtube will ever be more accessible again.

donatzsky 5y ago
It doesn't seem to work for everyone, but YouTube-dl should be able to download age-restricted videos, if you supply it with some fresh cookies.
- dspillett 5y ago
  Surely if the cookies are the answer you need to first give over the ID to get the right values in your cookies for youtube-dl to use, so you are not circumventing handing your ID to Google.
  - Mindwipe 5y ago
    Correct.
selfhoster11 5y ago
Sadly, I think you may be right. The ship has sailed on a great many channels and videos I had bookmarked. Rescuing whatever we can from this fire and pulling the plug on our own consumption on the platform seems like the wisest course of action.