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Death of Piped? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by user_naa@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Last two weeks every time I use Piped I am getting error "Sign in to confirm you are not a bot". It happens on every instance and videos work very rarely. It seems like Google enforces you to log in if you try watch lot of videos from one IP. I hope this will not be end of Piped and there will be solution for this problem.

Upd. I got similar problem on Invidious recently

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

NewPipe is broken for me. When I go to try to open the videos in my mobile browser, YouTube gives me the same error. So, YouTube itself is pretty much bricked to me on mobile, since I refuse to register an account.

I'm unsure if the behavior would persist if I disabled my VPN, but fuck that.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Same for me. Started watching youtube videos in firefox with ublock origin, works perfectly fine.

On a side note, Smart Youtube for Android tv still works perfectly fine.

[–] piracysails@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I have had the same issue. For me the last few weeks I keep changing VPN servers due to them being blocked.