First time this happens to me. With a German protonvpn server.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    861·
    1 month ago

    YouTube doesn’t like VPNs. Harder to track you (and sell/monetize your data) if they can’t tell who you are.

    • Skvlp@lemm.ee
      52·
      1 month ago

      I desperately want a viable alternative to come along. There’s a lot of great content on YouTube, but the platform is increasingly being enshitified.

          • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 month ago

            There’s nothing “disgusting” about nudity. You should shake off those preconceived cultural biases, you’ll be a better person.

      • pathief@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 month ago

        It’s a gigantic money sink, it’s going to be extremely hard to come up with a profitable (or break even) alternative.

      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
        8·
        1 month ago

        I agree. We just haven’t gotten to the point quite yet. Where the creators revolt. But that stage should appear somewhat shortly.

      • Scolding7300@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 month ago

        There’s platforms like Nebula that noticed the decline and also wanted to give creators the freedom to create without needing to deal with an ever changing algorithm

        • Skvlp@lemm.ee
          4·
          1 month ago

          I’ve considered Nebula a few times. That could absolutely be the alternative I’m looking for if they keep adding creators and topics and variety.

          • Scolding7300@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 month ago

            They seemingly are adding more creators. At least the ones I’ve followed. I recently just started contacting creators to ask if they’ve even heard of it and willing to contact so ppl can support them that way.

            Patreon is cool but I don’t want to have a subscription for every creator I like and decide on the amount.

            • Skvlp@lemm.ee
              1·
              1 month ago

              Thanks for doing the legwork, I appreciate the initiative :) I’m guessing that I’ll end up with a Nebula subscription, I just haven’t pulled the trigger yet.

        • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP $300

          I’m inclined to buy that just because it exists. I hate subscription services so, so much!

          This is the best option if you think you’ll use Nebula for more than 5 years.

      • hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        1 month ago

        Third party app without an account maybe? Freetube on the desktop and newpipe on the phone is what I like to use. There’s stuff like grayjay, tubearchivist, and pinchflat as well. Or just go straight yt-dlp.

      • Peffse@lemmy.world
        43·
        1 month ago

        Youtube does a ton of evil stuff, but this one is more tame. I suspect the VPN was used to bot and got banned, so the sign-in is required to better target where the traffic is allowed to go, instead of blanket banning everybody using the service.

        • kbal@fedia.io
          124·
          1 month ago

          I suspect the VPN was used to bot

          There are plenty of sources, including even in this thread, indicating that that this is not the problem. Quit making excuses for them.

            • kbal@fedia.io
              24·
              1 month ago

              It’s not just you. I’m tired of the whole team of people who are always standing by to bring out similar excuses any time someone decides that in their quest to stop invidious from existing — or whatever google is actually aiming at — it’s acceptable to just mass-block all the VPN users as collateral damage.

              • Peffse@lemmy.world
                7·
                1 month ago

                It’s not an excuse though. It’s right there in the error message.

                Where are people getting the impression I think google is some kind of saint who can do no wrong? I don’t even see the “proof” that is being used to say I’m coming to google’s defense. Just a few anecdotal theories… just like I provided.

                • kbal@fedia.io
                  15·
                  1 month ago

                  Ah, so it’s not you coming up with the stupid excuse that they have legit reasons to think the user might be a nefarious “bot”, you’re just passing along the stupid excuse as you interpret it from the meaningless message direct from Google. That explains where you got the idea that “viewbots” had anything to do with it, I guess.

          • Peffse@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 month ago

            Bot can automate views. It’s why Youtube keeps trying to move towards “engagement”. Comments, likes, etc, all require an account, which is an extra hurdle for bots.

            • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
              1·
              1 month ago

              Then I will they just doing half the work. They can just get the site account walled for that goal, not a half patch work of blocking VPN users.

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 month ago

      I go the other way. My youtube account is used across my family. My recommendation is a fucking mess.

      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
        6·
        1 month ago

        So, the home page includes Peppa pig videos alongside with gruesome skateboarding accident compilations. Something for everyone!

    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
      33·
      1 month ago

      You’re on Android use NewPipe and it’s forks, personally I prefer Tubular and PipePipe.

      Periodically YouTube will break, but both of those forks, as well as new pipe prime, update fairly quickly.

      GrayJay it’s interesting. It has different feel and feature set than newpipe, but it’s worth using. I will say I get more login errors with GrayJay, but closing the app and reopening it resolves it.

      All the piped apps will be in f-droid/droidify, you can download GrayJay directly, or just scan the QR to add the repo to a FOSS repo manager.

  • bruhSoulz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    Yea, been having this BIGTIME. Even occurs on grayjay, and pipe apps (newpipe, etc.) Its aggravating. Can’t even download vids either, and the ones u have downloaded are held ransom until u turn it off too 😂 at least in my case. Fuck google.

  • parpol@programming.dev
    12·
    1 month ago

    This is the result of them blocking invidious. They targeted large Datacenter nodes and check for the number of requests from those datacenters that aren’t logged in, and block them until that number meets a certain threshold. This also causes people with VPNs to get this message. The solution is to connect to smaller self-hosted invidious instances or using proxies hosted on normal residential ips.

    • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Unfortunately NewPipe will not help with that. I get this message in a browser and in NewPipe.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        1 month ago

        Have you tried if yt-dlp works? Cuz if that also doesnt, then maybe they actually temporarily blocked your IP?

        I have never gotten this message on yt so cant test it.

        • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          1 month ago

          Here’s the log from yt-dlp:

          [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR1buRTIKhk

          [youtube] kR1buRTIKhk: Downloading webpage

          [youtube] kR1buRTIKhk: Downloading ios player API JSON

          [youtube] kR1buRTIKhk: Downloading mweb player API JSON

          ERROR: [youtube] kR1buRTIKhk: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community. Learn more

  • Chump [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    the stupidest thing about this is that I literally am signed into youtube (yeah yeah, I know), and I still get this shit!

  • Onihikage@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Try clicking the sign in button, then navigating back to the video without actually signing in. Seems to work every time I’ve tried it so far.

  • disguised_doge@kbin.earth
    6·
    1 month ago

    Been seeing that a fair bit too lately. Freetube, Grayjay, and Newpipe seem so sometimes get around it, even if the error is in the browser the video will sometimes load in those apps from the same IP. If you get lucky and find a working invidious/piped instance that might work too.

    Otherwise, turning on a VPN and switching between servers will usually eventually lead to a working one. That, and if you’re up for it, check to see if your favorite creators are on places like Peertube, Odysee, or Rumble that don’t block IPs like YouTube does.

  • serenissi@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    This can be a soft limit where Youtube limits the connection rate so that artificially inflating view count becomes more costly. There are inexpensive ‘services’ especially in India or Pakistan where you can buy human (like a whole internet cafe) view times to your scam video to make it float in suggestions and to promote a channel.

    I don’t work for youtube so it is just a guess.

  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 month ago

    As much as it isn’t preferred, I can usually bypass the sign in shenanigans by going directly to the website to watch something without signing in. I usually only get the login prompt when going through my browser or a search engine.

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 month ago

        That’s what I mean though, trying to watch any YT video embedded anywhere without being signed in will yield that error, but I usually don’t have that problem on YT’s direct website, even without login. Still ridiculous, but so is Google