Youtube is not a ‘community.’ Fuck youtube.
invidious skips this pesky bullshit
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.
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?
Try invidious.
Switch the VPN server helps for me sometimes
Yeah sometimes I gotta do annoying ass captchas because of this
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 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 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.
Happened to me, too.
Baffling
Nobody here has suggested switching to Invidious, we’re suppose to be promoting open source alternatives!
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.
Use the libredirect extension to redirect links automatically to an open alternative
only we are allowed to steal these peoples content
I guess beware the danger of ToS that grants the platform unilateral rights to use your content they host; just because you don’t care what they can do with it now doesn’t mean some new tech won’t come along that lets them use your content in ways that horrify you
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.
If you set VPN to some random country that isn’t the US it will let you in just fine lmao
or at least that worked the last time I had this issue, I use an account for recommendations so I only get this if I’m looking up something sketchy.
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.
Use pipepipe wooooooo
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?
Yea I normally use Newpipe as well but it didn’t work so I switched to browser for this video.
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.
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.
