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Comment by alimbada | Hacker News Reader

I had this issue recently. The workaround was to use the embedded video link, e.g.:

  youtube-dl https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VIDEO_ID_HERE

Edit: It seems to have been patched. I can't seem to use this method anymore.

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Patched indeed. I used this trick for ages, but it doesn't work for some time now.

IME it depends on the video. I've encountered videos where the embed workaround didn't work, although I was using the youtube domain not the youtube-nocookie domain.

It seems they've plugged the workaround. I tried it again and it no longer works.

I am not sure if it's the video itself or if we as 'anonymous' users keep getting in and out of regional a/b testing at youtube.

As an anonymous user I keep seeing different behaviours with both 'forcing' embeddded links and also normal mobile links with latest ublock origin. (On Android with FF + ublock)

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