Cannot play viedo which is age restricted.

[agn-gpl]

Checklist

• [o] I am using the latest version - 0.20.4
• [o] I checked, but didn't find any duplicates (open OR closed) of this issue in the repo.
• [o] I have read the contribution guidelines given at https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/HEAD/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md.
• [o] This issue contains only one bug. I will open one issue for every bug report I want to file.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Find some age restricted video on youtube, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4JWI4UDOrc
2. Open with Newpipe.
3. It showed that the content is unaviable, but I can see some recommentsof the video there.

P.S. option "Show age restricted content" is on.

Actual behaviour

Video not unaviable. Cannot play it.

Expected behavior

I can play this video with Newpipe.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

link

Logs

Device info

• Android version/Custom ROM version: 9
• Device model: ASUS_X00TDB

[TotalCaesar659]

I guess Google starts to forbid playing embedded age-restricted videos: https://9to5google.com/2020/09/22/youtube-age-restricted-videos/
It seems to be a part of the issue I've created, I can add additional info there if you or admins want.

[agn-gpl]

I guess Google starts to forbid playing embedded age-restricted videos: https://9to5google.com/2020/09/22/youtube-age-restricted-videos/
It seems to be a part of the issue I've created, I can add additional info there if you or admins want.

It sounds bad. Many good videos on youtube become age-restricted for no reason, specailly for ASMR videos.
Maybe an optional "youtuwbe log in" option is needed in order to watch those age-restricted videos on newpipe?

[ghost]

This is why I still have an alternative app which still works and lets me download age-restricted videos

[rocketinventor]

In build 0.20.10, this does not appear to be the case anymore.

@agn-gpl Are you still having issues with this?

[czarkoff]

Sorry for reviving the ticket, but it started again. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2skk6RFFos

[Hoodlook]

Can confirm this is happening as of Aug 2021 on newest build 0.21.8.

[SmoothJaz]

I can confirm the issue appears to be present on 21.9

[litetex]

Statusupdate: v0.21.10

Sorry for reviving the ticket, but it started again. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2skk6RFFos

Video works as expected/is playable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4JWI4UDOrc

Video is not playable

[moriel5]

I also seem to have this issue, and toggling the "age-restriction" toggle seems not to do anything (nor am I using any filtered DNS, since CloudFlare doesn't offer that over HTTPS).

I tried opening HISHE's "How Lord of The Rings Should Have Ended" (which for some odd reason is now marked as a "Age Restricted Video", something that it certainly wasn't a few years ago when I had last watched it) when I had run into this.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

Update: I had managed to download the video with the help of yt-dlp (command line usage), and I can say, that being more sensitive to NSFW content than what is considered by western standards, I believe I have a good sense as to what is SFW, and this video, is, at least by western standards, absolutely SWF, which makes me think that YouTube's new policies are, and will continue to, be governed by their ridiculously unstable automated system, so we are probably about to see a flood of errors because of the system erroneously tagging every other video as age-sensitive.

[moriel5]

It appears that a method may have been going to bypass this in the browser, could this be useful for NewPipe?

https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass

[AudricV]

Duplicate of #8102. Note that only embeddable age-restricted videos will be viewable.