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.
“protect”, more like “corral”
And every comment section on YouTube being filled with bots, tons of channels run only with AI etc.
Google is on an enshittification speed-run. Close-source Android, combine with ChromeOS. Advertise the crap out of YouTube, draconian login requirements. Wherever their income is coming from now, it isn’t from making products users want. Probably the military “AI” overseas contracts.
I’ve been de-Googling the last few years casually as functional replacements came along and I’m down to threads now, but the icing on the cake was their injecting an ad into a funeral ceremony stream from a church on YouTube. Sure, software-side, we all know why it happened, but just. No.
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.
Try invidious.
The nice channels, those days are gone. The internet we knew has been destroyed or will be diminished to an annoying shadow pretty soon. If you had to put a % on what is now monitized or stripped for data what would it be?
what are you on about? there’s tons of amazing people on youtube
Then sign in and watch them. 😀
so what is the point of your comments?
If you don’t like YouTube with ads then simply don’t use it. Your life can exist without it.
You’re on a community chat board, people comment. Do you really have to be so grouchy? At least I am here part of the conversation. If you wanna be angry point it at YouTube/google etc not randoms on the internet. I can be cynical but it’s lesser than other things I could be.
The primitive technology guy is still going. Wish I could afford the land to try some of the things he does.
I’ve started getting captcha every time I do a Google search. Not sure what that’s about but it’s made the decision to pursue alternatives easy.
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.
Yeah, it’s funny. The bots are actually logged in to shitpost.
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.
oh hey, that’s me! And the video is also on fedi! https://pawb.fun/@slyka/113028002924181756
Turning a CD into the equivalent of a vynil. Now that’s something I never expected. Looks like a CD could fit maybe 3 tracks?
@ICastFist very very short ones maybe. Everything but the very outside edge is already outside of the range designed to be played on a regular turntable, so the surface speed is very low and the angle of the tone arm gets kinda extreme. My automatic turntable won’t play these at all unless you’re very careful since every quick movement of the tone arm that far in makes it think it’s hit the runout groove and stops playback.
Oh very nice! I never would have thought that it could be possible to play a CD like that. Your other videos on YouTube are also very cool and interesting.
@frittoBee it’s not really playing a CD, its cutting a groove like on a vinyl record into the CD and then playing it on a record player.
They want to track you, and if you don’t let them (VPN, 3rd party client, VM, etc) then they pull this shit.
I always use VPN and when I get this nonsense I know it’s nonsense because the video plays perfectly if I switch to a different country and reload the page.
Same
Youtube is not a ‘community.’ Fuck youtube.
No it is a community. It’s just that they’re lying that this is protecting it.
I would say it’s not a community just based on the fact that you can’t have any kind of actual conversation in the comments section. Commenting on YouTube videos is just screaming into the void.
Switching the VPN server helps for me sometimes
Yeah sometimes I gotta do annoying ass captchas because of this
invidious skips this pesky bullshit
#Baffling
Nobody here has suggested switching to Invidious,
Man 90% of Invidious instances are dead/not working for me, and of the few that do, they get mad at me for using an agent switcher (which I turn off but still). Freetube is slightly better, but will also break every few days and either require VPN switching or waiting for a fix from the devs.
Sidenote: LibRedirect users, are all LibReddit instances dead or is it just me?
This one always works for me,awesome instance.
Other alternatives are FreeTube, NewPipe or GrayJay. Personally I use FreeTube the most.
Invidious instance I use that has never caused me problems: https://invidious.f5.si/feed/popular
as far as libreddit…yeah it can be hit or miss. safereddit.com is generally pretty decent and hasn’t gone down too much, only issue I have with that is videos are very slow to play if at all.
Man 90% of Invidious instances are dead/not working for me, and of the few that do, they get mad at me for using an agent switcher
While true, Invidious instances were dropping like flies due to the amount of maintenance needed to keep it alive, Invidious admins shouldn’t be flagging you for using a user agent switcher.
I’m not sure of your nationality however, if you’re looking for an invidious instance I host one for folks with Canadian IP’s at https://inv.halstead.host/
Freetube is slightly better, but will also break every few days and either require VPN switching or waiting for a fix from the devs.
If I’m not mistaken Freetube can either use Invidious instances to proxy video playback or directly connect to YouTube servers, have you verified neither of these work?
Sidenote: LibRedirect users, are all LibReddit instances dead or is it just me?
I also host a Redlib instance at https://lib.halstead.host/ again geo-restricted to Canadian IP’s.
Libreddit died when Reddit made the APi change a couple years back, RedLib which is a fork is maintained
Originally, I was confused why people were saying that Libreddit is dead, cause I thought I was using it up until about a month ago, but now I realize I was using RedLib. I’m not sure why, but recently LibRedirect defaulted to Libreddit instances and I was dumb and didn’t check which service I was using, so I thought all Reddit proxies were dead. Thank you for helping me to notice this difference! I can finally stop having to go to the actual Reddit page 🥹
I also host a Redlib instance at https://lib.halstead.host/ again geo-restricted to Canadian IP’s.
I can totally verify that it’s restricted to Canada, had to switch VPN location to access the site. I’ll keep geo-restricting in mind if a sever supposedly won’t let me connect.
Glad to hear I could help you out!
I can totally verify that it’s restricted to Canada, had to switch VPN location to access the site. I’ll keep geo-restricting in mind if a sever supposedly won’t let me connect.
I did a little tinkering with my server and it should be globally accessible for now, I do want to keep this server some-what restricted so this may change, I got Anubis setup as the captcha/bot check. Hope it makes accessing it easier.I found a security flaw in the setup I had, unfortunately had to revert to my previous setup.
I’ve always found Freetube to be the best, most reliable alternative by far. It does break occasionally though which is disappointing, but I would assume that’s due to YouTube fighting hard to keep people on their own platform.
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.
Or search on fdroid. Love it
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
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.
Yeah, I think it might be some kind of rate limiting. In another thread, it happened to someone else after batch-downloading videos with yt-dlp, which also prevented yt-dlp from downloading. Then it was back to normal (no sign in required) a few hours later.
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.
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.
You can, but you should not.
Internet looks very different without it.
And some websites and videos don’t work correctly…
This is why I use things like Newpipe on my phone or FreeTube on my desktop/laptop. Why deal with a massive headache when I can bypass the agitator?
the IP block unfortunately applies to newpipe as well. you’d have to sign in to make it go away
For now, a fix that works for me on that has been just restarting my phone. Probably a very temporary solution that yt is working on preventing from working, but at least it works.
Yea I normally use Newpipe as well but it didn’t work so I switched to browser for this video.
It’s a automated test to see if you will log in to Google or if you walk away.
This is why it’s so inconsistent… It’s only sometimes, it changes if you change browsers or vpn endpoints. They make money from logged out users, so they are testing to see if they can push users into logging in without losing money.
