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I don't know if it's the right place to ask.
I don't want a Google account. I don't use yt that much but I still need it.
I even tried yt revanced. None of them works

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (9 children)

Grayjay still works and is being actively maintained. They also support other platforms like PeerTube and Odysee, which you can easily enable.

https://grayjay.app/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Hasn't worked for me for several months. Not with a VPN anyway.

[–] AnAmericanPotato 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've noticed that Google is getting more and more aggressive with VPNs. It won't let me load anything on VPN without logging in. This applies to third-party tools like yt-dlp too.

This probably depends on your VPN provider. Perhaps I can make a throwaway google account just to get it to stfu? I don't know how hard it is to make a semi-anonymous Google account nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Requires a phone nunber, at least most of the time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes ago

Depends on how you sign up. If you sign up with Gmail or Google TV they do not, last I checked.

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