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What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? (europe.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[–] sudo@programming.dev 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I only ever get this when I'm on a VPN. Sometimes reddit will do that to me too. It means someone's been abusing/scraping YouTube through your VPN server and they've temporarily blacklisted its IP address. Switch your VPN servers or turn off your VPN.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Mullvad with a Ukrainian server works fine for some reason. But it's a PITA to do, that's why I don't go to YouTube anymore.

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

That would explain why I get this too, but only some days and not others. Thanks for the insight (not OP)

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My VPN gets blocked on reddit and YT and it's my private server, OpenVPN on a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam. What the hell?

[–] deluxeparrot@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've seen a few places they started blanket banning data centre ip ranges since late last year.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

They can tell the IP of your server is nonresidential and don't trust it either. But I'd expect it to sometimes work.

[–] School_Lunch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its been doing this to me for at least a year now. I don't have a VPN. I look at old.reddit using duck duck go browser without an account. There's no way I'm going to watch a bunch of random videos while logged in. It would completely screw up their absolute shit recommendation algorithm.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would guess you're using a bunch of privacy protecting features that's preventing them from verifying your browser/device. Unfortunately, being anonymous is the same as looking like a bot.

Use NewPipe. It only ever gets blocked if you're on VPN or if YouTube did an api update and the app needs to update to match.

[–] School_Lunch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Only thing I use is the duck duck go browser. The problem is any YouTube links I come across. I'm just not going to click them anymore and I'm not interested enough to try to find a link for YouTube on newpipe. I'm not going to watch random videos like I did before while logged out of YouTube because it wont let me anymore. I'm certainly not going to watch them while logged in because it would screw up the shitty recommendation algorithm even worse.

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Turn off VPN… solid advice.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you want to view the content, its change the VPN server or use a residential IP. Residential proxies exist but are expensive and I'm not aware of any residential VPN services.