• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    47·
    2 个月前

    LMAO at the irony of YouTube taking a stand against bot scraping as if that isn’t Google’s entire business model.

    • frittoBee@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      2 个月前

      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.

      • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
        39·
        2 个月前

        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?

              • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
                12·
                2 个月前

                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.

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          The primitive technology guy is still going. Wish I could afford the land to try some of the things he does.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      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.

  • kevincox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    2 个月前

    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.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 个月前

    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.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      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.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      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.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      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?

      • Kris\Slyka@pawb.fun
        1·
        2 个月前

        @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.

    • frittoBee@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      2 个月前

      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.

    • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
      5·
      2 个月前

      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.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      2 个月前

      No it is a community. It’s just that they’re lying that this is protecting it.

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        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.

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      2 个月前

      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?

      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        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.

        • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          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.

          • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 个月前

            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.

      • finix_the_psyker@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        2 个月前

        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.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 个月前

    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

      • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        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.

        • TurboLag@lemmings.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          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.

    • frittoBee@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      2 个月前

      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…

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    5·
    2 个月前

    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.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 个月前

    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?

      • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        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.

    • frittoBee@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Yea I normally use Newpipe as well but it didn’t work so I switched to browser for this video.