What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? (europe.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[-] School_Lunch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Its been doing this to me for at least a year now. I don't have a VPN. I look at old.reddit using duck duck go browser without an account. There's no way I'm going to watch a bunch of random videos while logged in. It would completely screw up their absolute shit recommendation algorithm.

[-] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would guess you're using a bunch of privacy protecting features that's preventing them from verifying your browser/device. Unfortunately, being anonymous is the same as looking like a bot.

Use NewPipe. It only ever gets blocked if you're on VPN or if YouTube did an api update and the app needs to update to match.

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