First time this happens to me. With a German protonvpn server.
- MrRazamataz ( @MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz ) English18•10 hours ago
“Protecting our community” isn’t even a good excuse, you can’t leave comments without an account…
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 27•12 hours ago
This helps protect our
communityrevenue. - Telorand ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) 34•13 hours ago
YouTube doesn’t like VPNs. Harder to track you (and sell/monetize your data) if they can’t tell who you are.
- Skvlp ( @skvlp@lemm.ee ) 24•13 hours 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.
- hobbsc ( @hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•5 hours 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.
- CosmicTurtle0 ( @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English16•10 hours ago
Pornhub.
They have the technology and many of the features in place.
- shortwavesurfer ( @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ) 6•11 hours ago
I agree. We just haven’t gotten to the point quite yet. Where the creators revolt. But that stage should appear somewhat shortly.
- disguised_doge ( @disguised_doge@kbin.earth ) 4•9 hours 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.
- Onihikage ( @Onihikage@beehaw.org ) English8•10 hours 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.
- parpol ( @parpol@programming.dev ) 9•11 hours 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.
- intro ( @intro@programming.dev ) 10•12 hours ago
Try Freetube, it still works well, even with videos that are age limited.
- circuscritic ( @circuscritic@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 hours 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 is 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 them immediately.
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.
- Lemmchen ( @Lemmchen@feddit.org ) 4•9 hours ago
You will have the same issue with NewPipe.
- circuscritic ( @circuscritic@lemmy.ca ) 4•9 hours ago
I use both of them everyday. I’m using one of them right now.
Haven’t had that issue.
- blackris ( @blackris@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•1 hour ago
They are right. If you have that problem, the reason is that those fuckers at Google block your VPN. It will not help to use an alternative app.
- unexposedhazard ( @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ) 7•12 hours ago
Have you considered trying out NewPipe or its fork Tubular (with SponsorBlocck built in)?
- youmaynotknow ( @jjlinux@lemmy.ml ) 5•12 hours ago
Tubular works like a charm like 98% of the time (which is way more than YouTube apps, LOL).
- unexposedhazard ( @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•2 hours ago
Yeah when google breaks something newpipe and its forks usually get updated within a day or two. I really gotta donate to them again.
- bruhSoulz ( @bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml ) English5•12 hours 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.
- bobs_monkey ( @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ) 2•12 hours 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.