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From: walterjo...@invalid.nospam (Wally J)
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Subject: Re: I want to watch a youtube video that asks me to sign in to confirm my age
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 01:42:17 -0400
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by: Wally J - Thu, 22 Jun 2023 05:42 UTC

Wally J <walterjones@invalid.nospam> wrote

> Can I watch that YouTube video on Windows, Linux or Android without
> creating a login that has to confirm my age and they can track me?

Sorry I haven't been responding but the answers provided had solved the
problem of downloading age-restricted videos without creating an account.

The Windows ClipGrab 3.9.7 was working great up until just an hour ago.

It seems github updated yt-dlp.exe today 6/21/2023 (because maybe YouTube
changed something) since it stopped working on age-restricted videos today.

I figured someone else had already run into this before I did so I came
back to this thread but it's filled with completely unrelated stuff.

It took a half hour to plod though all the responses but most of the talk
had nothing at all to do with the problem set - it was about Apple profits.

Anyway, I ran into a problem YOU will run into & I solved it just now.

I updated the command line yt-dlp.exe to the latest version (which was
released today) and that fixed the problem yt-dlp.exe command line.

But I can't find an "obvious" way to update the ClipGrab GUI to load that
new yt-dlp.exe which was updated only today but there's no update button.

What I did was uninstall ClipGrab 3.9.7 & re-install it, which worked.
I didn't even have to delete the compiled yt-dlp python Roaming script.

But is there a more direct way, from within ClipGrab, to update the yt-dlp?

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Re: I want to watch a youtube video that asks me to sign in to confirm my age	Wally J