Video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users
YouTube has videos that are classed as inappropriate, rendering them unwatchable to non registered or logged in users. This can be really quite annoying. So here's a simple way to watch them, which takes advantage of YouTube allowing externally embedded videos to be watched with no restrictions.
Update: the url now seems to hold the entire address, fixed so it works for both.
Using this bypass method:
- Below is a link, you need to add it to your favourites/bookmarks without clicking it
- Firefox: Right-click on it and select Bookmark This Link
- Internet Explorer: Right-click on it and select Add to Favourites, agree to the information box
- Opera: Right-click on it and Bookmark Link..
- Chrome: You're gonna have to drag it into the bookmarks bit
- This is the aforementioned link: Youtube: Bypass Age Restriction
- Now, when you click on a youtube video and get the inappropriate content screen, find that saved link in your bookmarks or favourites, and click it, you should get the video load
- Leave a comment about it, or view comments that have been left
The Javascript behind the link
When you go to a YouTube link it will probably be in the form
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blehblehbleh
and may or may not have more or less after it, probably will - but thats okay. This javascript only strips off the start of the url and replaces it with the start of the embedding url.
javascript:void(
location.href = unescape(location.href)
.replace('erify_age?next_url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=', '/')
.replace('erify_age?&next_url=/watch?v=', '/')
);