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.
We are here to Protect and Serve ads
And every comment section on YouTube being filled with bots, tons of channels run only with AI etc.
They want to track you, and if you don’t let them (VPN, 3rd party client, VM, etc) then they pull this shit.
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.
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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.
For youtube just use yt-dlp and download them, can be behind a vpn when you do it. Im not sure if that affects the creator making money though.
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.
He’s using a browser version not revanced
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.
You can, but you should not.
Internet looks very different without it.
And some websites and videos don’t work correctly…
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 that nonsense.
I would rather not use YouTube at all than be forced to watch it with ads.
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.
I can still watch videos logged out most of the time. That message only appears occasionally and when it does I use Celluloid or Freetube to watch the video.
Youtube is not a ‘community.’ Fuck youtube.
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
Use the libredirect extension to redirect links automatically to an open alternative
I already get redirected to NewPipe. I only use the browser when NewPipe is not working.
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Baffling
Nobody here has suggested switching to Invidious, we’re suppose to be promoting open source alternatives!
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No I don’t use a VPN
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
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That doesn’t make sense though, since they can just create a bunch of free accounts for the bots to use.
