Youtube Embedded player acting weird for anyone else? (midwest.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Brutticus@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So Freetube got hit with 403 errors again. I tried to open a video in the embedded player and I keep getting hit with them demanding I log into to prove I am not a bot. Is anyone else getting hit with this?

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[-] Sims@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yes. YT constantly thinks I'm a bot, so I watch some freetube channels in a yt window while logged in. 50/50 atmo. Annoying, but perhaps an addon to freetube could fix some of it by detecting/playing same video/channel on other open platforms, or a common distributed video cache perhaps. crossing my fingers for any solution soon..

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