>>31851066the cookies need to be in netscape format, this
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg?hl=en extension has an export to clipboard button. theres probably a firefox one version too but thats the important part. export the cookies from
youtube.com +
account.google.com and put them in a file, then run yt-dlp --cookies cookies.txt
https://youtube/whatever and name it however you want if you dont want the default