yt-dlp or embedded youtube links say “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” but for me the whole plan of this operation is that i don’t have to do that.
that’s pretty bad
(edit: it works again, i changed nothing just waited)
Newpipe works for me, though im not using the release version.
Got this on newpipe for a bit earlier today (failure to load, not a demand to sign in), but it started working again a few hours later.
I had this same issue the other day where none of my videos in new pipe would work and I found out that it was because YouTube wanted me to sign in and I’m assuming that that’s the next phase of them trying to kick us off is just not serving people who do not have an account. So I would expect this to only increase over time. YouTube is about to end up the same way Facebook is where if you do not have an account you can’t even look at anything on the service itself I would just about bet you that.
Because who doesn’t have or doesn’t want a Google account, right? /s
that’s the next phase of them trying to kick us off is just not serving people who do not have an account. So I would expect this to only increase over time.
A losing business model considering the amount of people who are sick and tired of the aggressive ad placements all YouTube have become.
Kicking out everyone who doesn’t log into a Google account would lead to an immediate loss in viewership throughout the month/year, and that wouldn’t do well with investors.
I sincerely hope that is the bridge they cannot cross and get away with it. Because if you are right, then we will be okay. If you are wrong, we are screwed.
Perhaps.
I mean, it’s not like YouTube creators are happy with the state of the platform either. They keep getting paid less and less to the point that they have to resort to begging for donations or include sponsorships in the videos.
I imagine at this point other platforms are well positioned to capitalize on what YouTube has been doing to the platform for some time now. Personally I really like what platform aggregators like Grayjay are doing: basically the idea of following creators, not platforms.
So you can just install Grayjay now through their website and you’ll be surprised by how many youtubers you follow are already on other platforms.
I just go idle for a week or two and it works again. It seems like a soft IP block. I use a IPv4 address for yt-dlp so CGNAT sort of works in my favor here.
I really, really, really want to like peer tube. I mean, I truly, honestly do. But, at least currently, I can’t find any of the content I want to watch on it. lemmy and Mastodon have reached a critical mass where there is enough content to not need other services. Peertube is not to that point. My guess is that it is due to the fact of the bandwidth and storage needed to host the video and the fact that video content takes more effort to create.
Lately I’ve been using grayjay, going fine
Yep, found it about a year ago and never looked back. Its actually funded by futo which i think is owned by Yahoo. Hopefully it stays around for a while.
It is currently only owned by Eron Wolf, which is stated in their FAQ: https://futo.org/about/futo-faq/
Thanks for the information.
The app is distributed in a third party repo, not the main F-Droid repo, so before installating I’m trying to check if it’s open-source, had some independent review, and is safe to install.
The source is available but the license isn’t recognised as OSS according to the OSI website. https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay https://opensource.org/licenses
This may explain why it’s not in the main F-Droid repo. It’s better than closed source anyway.
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“Allo, IT? Have you tried turning it off and on again?” ;)
yt-dlp -U ?
Watching YT works fine on desktop in the SMplayer or searching the Video with Andisearch and watch it there in the search result, sandboxed with random proxy.
Glad to hear it’s working for you again. I did look around on yt-dlp’s github issue tracker and found one issue where the problem was that a user was downloading using a datacenter IP. I gather from this that it might’ve been a problem caused by your ISP perhaps giving you an IP that youtube sees as suspicious, or perhaps youtube messing up with their filters causing you to appear as suspicious by accident.
Good luck with your studies btw.If you’re using a VPN try connecting to a server in Albania, I’ve never had issues when connected from there for yt
Switching around vpn server works. It helps if you use servers nobody else uses
One of the reasons I use a VPS rather than a commercial VPN.
Who’s your provider? Google seemed to mark a whole range of providers like OVH and Hetzner as suspicious a while ago.
I sometimes get this with Mullvad in official YouTube app as well.
sign in to confirm you are not a bot.
ive been getting the same error, even on regular youtube frontend. it usually goes away after a while.
Pipepipe still works for me, I don’t have to sign in
true, that works for me. but having this moment where all of my default methods did not work was kind of scary. In the end all these methods are only temporary solutions and i think i should find more ways to completely ditch youtube
So annoying. I have to restart Freetube so many times to play a video.
This is network-specific. It’s been going on for a few months at least. yt-dlp itself still works without sign-in, if your network is not “suspicious”.
Always worth making sure you’re updated to the latest version of yt-dlp, but this is probably a network thing.
yt-dlp hasn’t worked for me for a few months on Mullvad. Using Swiss and Swedish servers but I’ve tried a couple other countries too, same problem.
I don’t think you can expect any VPN to work without sign-in for very long. Google’s playing whack-a-mole with VPNs.
I’ve never actually tried signing in with yt-dlp. How easy is it to make a throwaway google account nowadays? Do they require phone verification or something similarly onerous?
I think yt-dlp allows you to use your browser’s cookies to appear as a signed in user for downloading videos. I never bothered trying that.
How easy is it to make a throwaway google account nowadays?
I make throwaway Google accounts semi-frequently, though I don’t remember what they require. If you have a phone number it’s definitely sufficient but I don’t remember if you can make one without a phone number. If they require a phone number you can just buy a cheap sim card (in cash if you care about privacy) and use that. It costs money so if you need hundreds of throwaway accounts maybe not, but if it’s just one for downloading videos then it’s probably NBD, you’d be spending money on the VPN anyway.
