• Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    As someone without a YT account, I have seen this with regards to age verification (on rather random videos, actually), but not with “you might be a bot” reason.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Since I always browse with VPN + lots of privacy protections, I feel like half the websites I visit think I’m a bot. It’s a pain in the arse.

      • graphene@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Turns out reCAPTCHAs aren’t actually ‘tracking the way you move your mouse’ but just trying to match you to one of the billions of statistical models held in Google datacenters that represent the device fingerprints, personalities, locations, and preferences of every Internet user they track.

        And when they fail to match you… then they presume you’re not a real person.

    • Manalith@midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 day ago

      This is usually because they’re using a common VPN service. I’ve found that connecting to Ireland gets me past this prompt more often than not, but that likely won’t last long.

    • Cris16228@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The real problem is that it’s a pain sometimes and the fact they suggest to restart every hour is even worse. Recently, I had a problem where it started to play some videos and then stopped the playback and from there it went in a reloading loop till you get something like

      Refreshing does nothing. Restarting is the same

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        IDK about invidious, but on Piped I had to add a container that grabs POtokens for the Newpipe API to use to pull videos.

      • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        For me, it’s running for months and I had to load new image updates sometimes, because YouTube likes to break it, but this was maybe once a month…

        • Cris16228@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Most of the times it works but sometimes it’s just a pain to deal with the problem I mentioned. Do you restart it once in a while?

          • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
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            1 day ago

            Maybe, once a month when YouTube breaks their site and a video does not load via Invidious, I execute

            docker compose pull

docker compose down

docker compose up -d

            to load the latest images and usually, it works again.

            I have no automated restarts every few hours or days.

  • RunningInRVA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If you click Cancel and then simply search for the same video you can watch it without signing in. Total horseshit but still a good ‘fuck you’ move against YouTube.

  • ShyCake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Happens to me every now and then, I just switch vpn servers, then it works fine. It’s inconsistent, the same server that was suspicious one day is fine the next. I’m guessing it depends on how many youtube videos are being streamed on that particular sever at that time

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Don’t use a VPN?

      What good is doing anyway? Tracking happens mostly outside if IP address. Even at that your IP address is probably dynamic.

      • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I usually don’t use one for browsing, and not for privacy reasons.

        I have a wireguard hub-and-spoke configuration with my VPS as hub to

        • Let my VPS act as a reverse proxy to my home servers
        • Not have to expose ssh on my VPS to the public internet
        • Easily reach all my home servers when I travel
        • Route traffic through my VPS when I’m on sketchy open WiFi. Which is when I’ve encountered OP’s sign-in requirement.
  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    this is likely youtube’s way of trying to persuade people into making an account, without going public that they are forcing people to make accounts.

    I found it does that if im logged out on a VPN, but standard residential IP’s it doesn’t with.

    I assume eventually it’s going to just require a google account to use the service period

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It sounds like they’re getting ready for age verification, which will be mandated in some countries this year.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I only speak for myself but the day they require it, bye. I’ll miss the creators that I follow but the ones I directly patron through other ways, I’ll watch elsewhere. I get that servers cost money but Google isn’t losing money, they just want more.

      • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Realistically we didn’t need it before YouTube existed and I should be fine without it, but I think it’ll be tough, I don’t have an aerial for FTA tv anymore, nor a tv in my bedroom and I don’t really want to sign up for a subscription streaming service. Plus a decent chunk of my employers use YouTube as end point for the videos I edit so that could be a bit of a hit too. There’s always reading I guess, that might be doubly necessary if I end up poorer and can’t afford much else.