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.
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.
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.
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.
Just turn off these plugins and VPN boy, it is safe here 🤡
I’m once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.
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
IDK about invidious, but on Piped I had to add a container that grabs POtokens for the Newpipe API to use to pull videos.
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…
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?
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 -dto load the latest images and usually, it works again.
I have no automated restarts every few hours or days.
How does one embark on such a journey?
Quite easy with Docker: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-method-production
Grayjay can get around that issue in most cases.
Unfortunately that is proprietary software, i.e. it restricts the users four essential freedoms :/
Whats wrong with it? its open source: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
It’s source available, not open source.
It severely limits what can legally be done by restricting modifications and prohibiting “commercial” distribution:
You may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.
You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
Non-commercial purposes is extremely vague by the way. Depending on the country - or even the court in a country - nearly everything distributed on the internet is for commercial purposes.
For example, in Germany, only commercial websites have to put up a legal disclosure consisting of address, full name, phone number and email. Yet courts have ruled that every single website that is available to the public is “commercial” - only private webpages available to a handful of people are non-commercial. If anyone redistributed the software in Germany this license would be grounds for a successful lawsuit.
Meh, as long as it works… I can always switch off grayjay. And the source is available
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
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.
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.
why would anyone ever sign up for subscription media
fmhy.pages.dev/videopiracyguide
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They’ve required an account to watch age restricted videos for years now
Revance it
Revanced still uses microG
So bots just have to sign in?
I mean its lame but it’s pretty much standard at this point. Gotta make an account to use anything these days.
My solution is to avoid services that are anti-lurker.
If im not able to view it without logging in, i just accept it, not watch it, and move on with my life.
IG ain’t gonna get me.
Newpipe is working
no desktop for newpipe? is it just the android app?
Huge, got worried
Copy URL,
yt-dlp <dat URL>.I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp
mpv <dat URL>
GrayJay
Also has this problem. For me, the issue is vpn, so I switch to a random server that hasn’t been blacklisted
FreeTube
FreeTube isn’t working for IP related issues atm, I’m having more luck with NewPipe.
(edit) Fix in the latest update!
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.
welcome to my life
That’s been happening to me lately also. I’ve used NewPipe on Android to get around to.
Have a look at peertube, it’s gotten to a point where it can definitely supplement YT.
It isn’t even close to YouTube.
That’s no lie, hence supplement, not replace. But the community can only grow, if people start using it more, even just a little bit in addition to YT where it works for them.
Peertube is great, I wish more people started uploading their content to it
I’m deaf and the large majority of peertube videos don’t have captions :/
At least from what I’ve seen, a lot more videos than in the past seem to have transcripts and captions, including automatically generated captions. I recently moved all my old YT videos (mostly German YoutubePoops from the early 2010s) over to peertube.wtf and they had automatic captions generated without input on my end, in English and German both.
hmmm should probably find their request list and vote up AI captioning
I’ve just stopped watching. Plenty of other stuff to do. If they don’t want to show me their ads that’s their problem.
