Switch the VPN server helps for me sometimes
Google is on an enshittification speed-run. Close-source Android, combine with ChromeOS. Advertise the crap out of YouTube, draconian login requirements. Wherever their income is coming from now, it isn’t from making products users want. Probably the military “AI” overseas contracts.
I’ve been de-Googling the last few years casually as functional replacements came along and I’m down to threads now, but the icing on the cake was their injecting an ad into a funeral ceremony stream from a church on YouTube. Sure, software-side, we all know why it happened, but just. No.
Yes. It’s been this way for about a year now.
Fucking sucks. I used to enjoy looking at YouTube while signed out so that I could see new content that my algorithm refuses to show me. Now I can’t.
I wonder what sort of demographics are effected by this, because it’s the first I’ve heard of it and I semi-regularly browse while signed out.
Use the libredirect extension to redirect links automatically to an open alternative
Baffling
Nobody here has suggested switching to Invidious, we’re suppose to be promoting open source alternatives!
only we are allowed to steal these peoples content
I guess beware the danger of ToS that grants the platform unilateral rights to use your content they host; just because you don’t care what they can do with it now doesn’t mean some new tech won’t come along that lets them use your content in ways that horrify you
If you set VPN to some random country that isn’t the US it will let you in just fine lmao
or at least that worked the last time I had this issue, I use an account for recommendations so I only get this if I’m looking up something sketchy.
Use pipepipe wooooooo
This helps protect our community.
I hate when companies lie to my face. Watching a video anonymously is not harming anyone except maybe a fraction of a cent of cost to Google. If I was posting a comment or something maybe, but oh, you already need to be logged in for that.
LMAO at the irony of YouTube taking a stand against bot scraping as if that isn’t Google’s entire business model.
Its always the same when some big tech company says its to protect you or the community.
This is why I use things like Newpipe on my phone or FreeTube on my desktop/laptop. Why deal with a massive headache when I can bypass the agitator?
the IP block unfortunately applies to newpipe as well. you’d have to sign in to make it go away
They want to track you, and if you don’t let them (VPN, 3rd party client, VM, etc) then they pull this shit.
I always use VPN and when I get this nonsense I know it’s nonsense because the video plays perfectly if I switch to a different country and reload the page.
Oh they have videos now? Last time i was there it was mostly just ads
If you are lucky you get ads before a paid review of a product that was donated by the manufacturer and then ads in between
You’re probably using revanced or vanced … there was a recent patch, you have to update it.
It also does it sometimes if you’re on a VPN.
I’m getting it constantly in my old reddit app with vpn off. Seems if it doesn’t recognize your browser fingerprint it will call you a bot.
Yeah, I think it might be some kind of rate limiting. In another thread, it happened to someone else after batch-downloading videos with yt-dlp, which also prevented yt-dlp from downloading. Then it was back to normal (no sign in required) a few hours later.
That happened to me but it lasts like a month. No one in the house could watch YouTube lol
Can’t imagine it’s a rate limit in my case, it happens the very first time I try to load a video with the in-app browser
I normally use NewPipe but that didn’t work so I used Firefox and got that lovely message on the video. But now, a few hours later, it all works again…
Are you also using something like ubo?
Yes I use ubo. I don’t know if I could browse the internet without it.
They’re upset about your use of UBO. They are actively targeting users who have it enabled. That’s why it’s trying to force you to sign in.
For what it’s worth, I second the others. Don’t disable Ublock Origin. Try a different YouTube front end if you have to. Google can kick rocks with them s nonsense.
Internet looks very different without it.
You can, but you should not.
He’s using a browser version not revanced
Music on CDs
