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YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 day ago by FundMECFSResearch to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

I have been using freetube for a while now which is also facing this issue so it looks like a tug of war between the clients and YouTube which is getting others in the crossfire as well. But for some reason, when I add haruna as external player in freetube and launch a video it always works. Guessing other video players like vlc might also work which you can use with freetube and maybe other privacy focused clients.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

POV 3 years from now: YouTube won’t let me watch a video unless I do a nazi salute

[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

I thought about making an *arr application for automating the downloading of your subscribed youtube channels and in quality you want. I want to call it yarrtube. Idk if anyone would be interested or not so only been a pipe dream.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 20 points 22 hours ago

Copy URL, yt-dlp <dat URL>.

[-] adub@programming.dev 7 points 19 hours ago

I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp mpv <dat URL>

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 24 points 1 day ago

I'm once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.

[-] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 day ago

Newpipe is working

[-] redacted2@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

no desktop for newpipe? is it just the android app?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

You can use Waydroid

[-] jim3692@discuss.online 1 points 17 hours ago

There is Piped, which is a web version of NewPipe

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Huge, got worried

[-] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

I'm having the same issue on Freetube, it pops up and says it can't play the video because Youtube requires being signed in. Sometimes if I retry a couple of time it'll play, but usually keeps getting the same error. Freetube is great though, maybe they'll come up with a solution soon.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.

Edit: with or without VPN makes no difference either

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately this has been going on few several months now. YT is actively blocking IPs if they think they are from data centers, VPNs, or proxies.

They've also been doing some under the hood cryptographic changes that cause breakages from time to time in Invidious (the backend for FreeTube)

[-] geography082@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I had a private invidious instance, with the bad idea to be attached with my paid domain, and even it was private , google crawl bots listed it into the Google Safe Browsing blacklist. In consequence, my domain admin (NJALLA) banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn't refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 points 18 hours ago

oh shit, I did not even consider that could happen. I uh... need to go tear down an instance I don't really use anymore.

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

So bots just have to sign in?

[-] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Happens to me only when I use my VPN.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago

your VPN IP is blacklisted

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 12 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] graphene@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

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.

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 5 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

VPN Ireland has been my go-to for years. If it stops I'm gonna be pissed.

[-] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Have had some success just by reloading the page when I get this message

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Revance it

[-] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Revanced still uses microG

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] redacted2@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

why would anyone ever sign up for subscription media

fmhy.pages.dev/videopiracyguide

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Well yes there's always the seven seas I guess. They were always a refuge for me before YouTube as well.

[-] Chivera@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

GrayJay

[-] orize@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

FreeTube

[-] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 5 points 22 hours ago

FreeTube isn't working for IP related issues atm, I'm having more luck with NewPipe

[-] hulfpa@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

That's been happening to me lately also. I've used NewPipe on Android to get around to.

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Have a look at peertube, it's gotten to a point where it can definitely supplement YT.

!peertube@lemmy.world

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago

Peertube is great, I wish more people started uploading their content to it

[-] FundMECFSResearch 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’m deaf and the large majority of peertube videos don’t have captions :/

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

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.

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