• RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    17 hours ago

    I have been using freetube for a while now which is also facing this issue so it looks like a tug of war between the clients and YouTube which is getting others in the crossfire as well. But for some reason, when I add haruna as external player in freetube and launch a video it always works. Guessing other video players like vlc might also work which you can use with freetube and maybe other privacy focused clients.

    • adub@programming.devEnglish
      61·
      1 day ago

      I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp mpv <dat URL>

  • RunningInRVA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    2 days ago

    If you click Cancel and then simply search for the same video you can watch it without signing in. Total horseshit but still a good ‘fuck you’ move against YouTube.

    • leadore@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      I’m having the same issue on Freetube, it pops up and says it can’t play the video because Youtube requires being signed in. Sometimes if I retry a couple of time it’ll play, but usually keeps getting the same error. Freetube is great though, maybe they’ll come up with a solution soon.

      • NegativeNull@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.

        Edit: with or without VPN makes no difference either

        • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
          14·
          2 days ago

          Unfortunately this has been going on few several months now. YT is actively blocking IPs if they think they are from data centers, VPNs, or proxies.

          They’ve also been doing some under the hood cryptographic changes that cause breakages from time to time in Invidious (the backend for FreeTube)

          • geography082@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            I had a private invidious instance, with the bad idea to be attached with my paid domain, and even it was private , google crawl bots listed it into the Google Safe Browsing blacklist. In consequence, my domain admin (NJALLA) banned me: i had 1 year paid, they didn’t refund, and imagine the disaster in all my self hosted apps.

    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Unfortunately, neither fixes this. Grayjay seems to work, but its inconsistent in my experience, often repeatedly returning to the beginning of the video part-way through.

      • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Grayjay is useless on Linux. Every video suddenly stops halfway and you need to reload. Same for every video. Talking about music videos, 5-6 min long.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      313·
      2 days ago

      Don’t use a VPN?

      What good is doing anyway? Tracking happens mostly outside if IP address. Even at that your IP address is probably dynamic.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          It is one data point out of thousands.

          I routinely see people using a VPN while signing in to online services

      • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        I usually don’t use one for browsing, and not for privacy reasons.

        I have a wireguard hub-and-spoke configuration with my VPS as hub to

        • Let my VPS act as a reverse proxy to my home servers
        • Not have to expose ssh on my VPS to the public internet
        • Easily reach all my home servers when I travel
        • Route traffic through my VPS when I’m on sketchy open WiFi. Which is when I’ve encountered OP’s sign-in requirement.
  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    2 days ago

    I’ve just stopped watching. Plenty of other stuff to do. If they don’t want to show me their ads that’s their problem.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    As someone without a YT account, I have seen this with regards to age verification (on rather random videos, actually), but not with “you might be a bot” reason.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      Since I always browse with VPN + lots of privacy protections, I feel like half the websites I visit think I’m a bot. It’s a pain in the arse.

      • graphene@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Turns out reCAPTCHAs aren’t actually ‘tracking the way you move your mouse’ but just trying to match you to one of the billions of statistical models held in Google datacenters that represent the device fingerprints, personalities, locations, and preferences of every Internet user they track.

        And when they fail to match you… then they presume you’re not a real person.

    • Manalith@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      This is usually because they’re using a common VPN service. I’ve found that connecting to Ireland gets me past this prompt more often than not, but that likely won’t last long.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    this is likely youtube’s way of trying to persuade people into making an account, without going public that they are forcing people to make accounts.

    I found it does that if im logged out on a VPN, but standard residential IP’s it doesn’t with.

    I assume eventually it’s going to just require a google account to use the service period

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      It sounds like they’re getting ready for age verification, which will be mandated in some countries this year.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I only speak for myself but the day they require it, bye. I’ll miss the creators that I follow but the ones I directly patron through other ways, I’ll watch elsewhere. I get that servers cost money but Google isn’t losing money, they just want more.

      • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Realistically we didn’t need it before YouTube existed and I should be fine without it, but I think it’ll be tough, I don’t have an aerial for FTA tv anymore, nor a tv in my bedroom and I don’t really want to sign up for a subscription streaming service. Plus a decent chunk of my employers use YouTube as end point for the videos I edit so that could be a bit of a hit too. There’s always reading I guess, that might be doubly necessary if I end up poorer and can’t afford much else.