How to watch videos on youtube with age restrictions

The video-sharing platform par excellence YouTube really offers an endless number of contents, ranging from children’s to adult videos. It was born precisely to protect minors from videos that are not suitable for them age control, which limits access to certain contents (violent, gory, vulgar or sexually explicit) to users who do not reach the age of majority.

It is also true that given the huge amount of videos it would be impossible for the platform to manually control the contents, which are then sorted by machine learning algorithms. This sorting is certainly not flawless, so it often happens that you consider harmless content as adult videos (and sometimes unfortunately the other way around).

There are therefore many who are looking for effective ways to bypass the age check on YouTube and thus be able to see some videos of their interest.. In addition, Google’s control has become much tighter, now to change your date of birth so as to be of age, you have to provide a valid identity document. In this guide we will see all the alternatives that the Web offers, strongly inviting the public to use them responsibly.

The best ways to bypass the age check on YouTube

On PC (Windows, Linux, Mac)

Free Tube is a convenient complete and effective YouTube open source alternative client which allows you to easily access all the videos on the well-known video sharing portal, bypassing age control and the need for an account. Free Tube is a highly regarded and cross-platform project, available for Windows, Mac and various Linux distros.

The installation and use of Free Tube are both very simple operations, you will have to:

• go to the Free Tube project website;
• click on the executable for your platform (for example on an .exe file for Windows or .dmg for Mac);
• when the download is complete click twice on the downloaded file to start the short installation procedure;
• once the installation is complete, you can start the app, search for the videos of our interest and watch them without any age control without having to log in.

Your Android

A bit like the solution we presented earlier, NewPipe is an open source and free alternative client for YouTube, designed to be lightweight and not require access with any account. This application is not available from the Play Store, but can be installed safely by downloading the apk directly from the project site and proceeding with the manual installation, or through the free and open source software store F-Droid.

To install and use NewPipe enough:

• go to the official NewPipe website;
• press on “Get New Pipe”And then on the red button to download the latest version;
• when the download is complete, press on the file to start the procedure for installing the apk (if it is the first time you install one, touch enable the option to install from unknown sources)
• once finished you can start the app, search for the videos of our interest and watch them comfortably through the lightweight client and without any age control.

Through online service

Much like the alternative clients we mentioned above, this solution allows you to bypass the age check on YouTube simply by showing you the videos on another page. It works very simply, you just need:

• connect to YouTube;
• reach the video (even blocked of our interest);
• change the address by adding the sequence “nsfw“(Without quotes, so to give an example:
  “Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZk2_pJUCo” will have to become
  “https://www.nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=6wZk2_pJUCo”;
• finally, you can press the “Enter“. This will load a page similar to that of the screen from which you can see the selected clip without restrictions.

By changing the url of the YouTube video

Even artfully changing the address of a YouTube video can usually bypass the age check. Doing so is very simple, but obviously you cannot proceed using the YouTube client, but only the site.

After connecting to the YouTube page, looking for the video of our interest, and stumbling upon the block, you can change the address as follows:

• press on the address bar;
• then modify the video address by deleting the “watch?v=“And replacing it with”v /“(Without quotes), then to give an example the video:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 6wZk2_pJUCo “becomes” https://www.youtube.com/v /=6wZk2_pJUCo”;
• once the modification has been made, press the “Enter“.