▲ 459 ▼ What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by frittoBee@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 129 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (1 child) I'm getting it constantly in my old reddit app with vpn off. Seems if it doesn't recognize your browser fingerprint it will call you a bot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) Yeah, I think it might be some kind of rate limiting. In another thread, it happened to someone else after batch-downloading videos with yt-dlp, which also prevented yt-dlp from downloading. Then it was back to normal (no sign in required) a few hours later. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tehmics@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago Can't imagine it's a rate limit in my case, it happens the very first time I try to load a video with the in-app browser permalink fedilink source parent [–] xylol@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago That happened to me but it lasts like a month. No one in the house could watch YouTube lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) Yeah, I think it might be some kind of rate limiting. In another thread, it happened to someone else after batch-downloading videos with yt-dlp, which also prevented yt-dlp from downloading. Then it was back to normal (no sign in required) a few hours later. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tehmics@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago Can't imagine it's a rate limit in my case, it happens the very first time I try to load a video with the in-app browser permalink fedilink source parent [–] xylol@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago That happened to me but it lasts like a month. No one in the house could watch YouTube lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago Can't imagine it's a rate limit in my case, it happens the very first time I try to load a video with the in-app browser permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xylol@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago That happened to me but it lasts like a month. No one in the house could watch YouTube lol permalink fedilink source parent