LMAO at the irony of YouTube taking a stand against bot scraping as if that isn't Google's entire business model.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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Its always the same when some big tech company says its to protect you or the community.
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oh hey, that's me! And the video is also on fedi! https://pawb.fun/@slyka/113028002924181756
Turning a CD into the equivalent of a vynil. Now that's something I never expected. Looks like a CD could fit maybe 3 tracks?
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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.
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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.
Yeah, it's funny. The bots are actually logged in to shitpost.
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.
I'm also mostly de-Googled now. I'm not signed in anywhere and don't use most of the google stuff. It wasn't really that hard since there are great alternatives. But saying no to YouTube and all the nice channels I'm following is really hard.
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I've started getting captcha every time I do a Google search. Not sure what that's about but it's made the decision to pursue alternatives easy.
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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.
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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...
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He's using a browser version not revanced
Youtube is not a 'community.' Fuck youtube.
No it is a community. It's just that they're lying that this is protecting it.
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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.
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ThIs HeLpS pRoTeCt OuR cOmMuNiTy!!!!
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
Switching the VPN server helps for me sometimes
Yeah sometimes I gotta do annoying ass captchas because of this
invidious skips this pesky bullshit
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
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Baffling
Nobody here has suggested switching to Invidious, we’re suppose to be promoting open source alternatives!
Man 90% of Invidious instances are dead/not working for me, and of the few that do, they get mad at me for using an agent switcher (which I turn off but still). Freetube is slightly better, but will also break every few days and either require VPN switching or waiting for a fix from the devs.
Sidenote: LibRedirect users, are all LibReddit instances dead or is it just me?
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Use the libredirect extension to redirect links automatically to an open alternative
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This has been happening to me in embeds for ages, and I am logged in. It doesn't even give any option to sign in or watch on YouTube, I just don't get to watch embeds anymore.
You use a VPN? This pops up when my VPN is on.
No I don't use a VPN
Ive been seriously considering just deleting youtube and using nebula in place of youtube. Im just not sure if the subscription is worth it. I love the idea of no ads, supporting the creators directly, and not supporting google. Has anyone here tried nebula? Would love to hear your thoughts
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AI bots that are not google's. They want exclusive ownership of juicy training data.
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It's a automated test to see if you will log in to Google or if you walk away.
This is why it's so inconsistent... It's only sometimes, it changes if you change browsers or vpn endpoints. They make money from logged out users, so they are testing to see if they can push users into logging in without losing money.
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
What will it take to make PeerTube relevant enough that people will creat content and follow creatos on the fediverse?
Is it possible for creators to earn money on PeerTube? If not, maybe that's what's holding a lot of them back. And of course the fact that most people don't know what PeerTube is. It should be easily accessible for everyone and have some kind of system to give the creators money. And make the switch from YouTube easy.
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The masses don't know how to search for information anymore. Not only that, but they are unable to do so with the disparity of their understanding of the search engines and the current state of search engines. People are used to being fed information through an algorithm, and those who control the algorithm aren't about to promote a competitor that'd take away their money.
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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.
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