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I don't understand why that YouTube video requires age verification. As far as I know that prevents it from being played to anyone not logged in, including embeds, and severely limits people from seeing it.

Social media flagging is censorship. More and more people are calling on videos to be flagged, taken down, etc — then we run into instances like this one where we wish the mechanism wasn't in place at all.

I hope HK brings to world back to a recognition of the important of free speech and that the world brings attention back to HK.

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>I don't understand why that YouTube video requires age verification. As far as I know that prevents it from being played to anyone not logged in, including embeds, and severely limits people from seeing it.

Yep. Usually, they play when changing from

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q

  https://www.youtube.com/embed/0yXTHODE24Q

but not this.

But

  youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q

works. :D https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Youtube-dl

Thanks. It's really obnoxious that they make you sign-in to verify your age, rather than just enter your birth date like some other sites. Especially since AFAIK it's impossible to create a Google account these days without giving them your phone number (thus exposing your identity). For politically sensitive videos such as this, such restrictions seem like a particularly bad idea.

I'm pretty sure you can, but if you're creating a lot of the mat once they begin to require it.

I don't think you can. I tried creating a Google account anonymously once just to see if it was possible. A verified phone number was strictly required and they refused to let me use numbers from any of the anonymized online phone services I tried. Maybe they would have let me skip that step if I was connected over my home IP address rather than TOR, but doing it that way would have sort of defeated the purpose of not giving them my phone number in the first place (anonymity).

Or just add NSFW in front to bypass age verification

https://nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=0yXTHODE24Q

I've used that for a few years no. You don't even need to enable JS for that domain.

I believe the age verification kicks in because there are scenes of violence in the video itself, not because of the topic.

I've often found easier to play that kind of videos, or most "unavailable/blocked in your country" straight from duckduckgo's results page. You can often just look the URL up: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwa...

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