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A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded in a news article where YouTube is throwing the error “Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.” Stitched below is a screen grab from Avengers Endgame where Captain America says, “no, I don't think I will.”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Can't use YouTube with my VPN without signing in

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Freetube desktop app works well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's more of a me problem as I don't like installing more apps than needed, I just use Firefox for watching YouTube or download the videos to watch later with yt-dlp. Both of these methods need me to disconnect the VPN

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Minimizing installed apps does help in some ways with security (idk your personal reason) but I prefer to never even render Google pages directly because of all the embedded trackers and the browser fingerprinting vector.

[–] brbposting 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I might be wrong, but it seems like creating new accounts & using new emails or at least email forwarding services should help protect our privacy a little bit.

And some thoughts about like five people:

I feel bad YouTube is punishing YouTube Premium users who wanted to do a couple searches about finding divorce lawyers or birthday gifts to buy their kids while maintaining some privacy for a couple moments. Bet if Proton bought them they would implement some URL parameter you could pass or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Google requires phone for signing up accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Startpage > anonymous view

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ublock doesn't seem to work with their proxy

[–] thr0w4w4y2 2 points 2 months ago

same, fortunately there’s a whole internet of content that I can browse instead of signing in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been getting this from yew tube and piped too.

I guess I’m done with videos?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SmartTube and NewPipe still work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm getting this error on NewPipe with my real ip address, but it's working fine when I connect through Mullvad VPN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What kind of device is that on? On my Samsung phone, it's still working without a hitch, like SmartTube on my tv is..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Youtube is just awful nowadays anyway. I haven't see a new video worth watching for years now. Backup any old videos you used to like and move on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Presumably it's to stop video scraping for ai training

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

I would assume it's to stop the likes of Invidious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t seen this live, but “to confirm you’re not a bot” really doesn’t sound like language YouTube would use

[–] brbposting 6 points 2 months ago

I think its brevity and down to earth, no nonsense message, easily interpretable by the normies, is why it won out in Alphabet’s endless discussions and revisions. (Everything there goes through like eight managers right?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

blech, someone without the ublock origin filter to block third party frames!?

[–] brbposting 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But mah mobile

AdGuard doing the best it can… is it? Could enable another list 🤔

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

assuming you are using android, just use firefox + ublock origin

[–] brbposting 2 points 1 month ago

I wish, iOS!

UBO everything otherwise