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.
We are here to Protect and Serve ads
And every comment section on YouTube being filled with bots, tons of channels run only with AI etc.
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.
Same
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.
For youtube just use yt-dlp and download them, can be behind a vpn when you do it. Im not sure if that affects the creator making money though.
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?
what are you on about? there’s tons of amazing people on youtube
Then sign in and watch them. 😀
so what is the point of your comments?
If you don’t like YouTube with ads then simply don’t use it. Your life can exist without it.
You’re on a community chat board, people comment. Do you really have to be so grouchy? At least I am here part of the conversation. If you wanna be angry point it at YouTube/google etc not randoms on the internet. I can be cynical but it’s lesser than other things I could be.
The primitive technology guy is still going. Wish I could afford the land to try some of the things he does.
I’ve started getting captcha every time I do a Google search. Not sure what that’s about but it’s made the decision to pursue alternatives easy.
When you are forced to do captchas make sure you do them as badly as possible while appearing to be human!
These fuckers weren’t even paying attention to the “precision vs. accuracy” concept introduced in the first lecture in the one science class they had to take. Make them pay for their ignorance.
How does one do this?
Just pretend you are trying to bullshit what the objects you are identifying are as if you actually have no clue what you are supposed to be doing but you have learned basic ways to bullshit your way through. Imagine the captcha as the class you cared about LEAST in school and attempt to answer it as sloppily and half-assed as you can without getting kicked out of class.
We were born for this calling my friend. Fill out captchas the way society fulfills its promise to provide you with a stable future so you can flourish, I.E. don’t do that all just drown the conversation in meaningless almost sensible crap.
Ive been using bing. Not a fan of microsoft but so far it hasnt been too bad
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.
Yeah, it’s funny. The bots are actually logged in to shitpost.
You’re probably using revanced or vanced … there was a recent patch, you have to update it.
It also does it sometimes if you’re on a VPN.
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.
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.
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
He’s using a browser version not revanced
I normally use NewPipe but that didn’t work so I used Firefox and got that lovely message on the video. But now, a few hours later, it all works again…
Are you also using something like ubo?
Yes I use ubo. I don’t know if I could browse the internet without it.
You can, but you should not.
Internet looks very different without it.
And some websites and videos don’t work correctly…
They’re upset about your use of UBO. They are actively targeting users who have it enabled. That’s why it’s trying to force you to sign in.
For what it’s worth, I second the others. Don’t disable Ublock Origin. Try a different YouTube front end if you have to. Google can kick rocks with that nonsense.
I would rather not use YouTube at all than be forced to watch it with ads.
Youtube is not a ‘community.’ Fuck youtube.
No it is a community. It’s just that they’re lying that this is protecting it.
I would say it’s not a community just based on the fact that you can’t have any kind of actual conversation in the comments section. Commenting on YouTube videos is just screaming into the void.
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.
Yeah I’ll frequently pop a private window when watching something I don’t want mucking with my recommendations and I’ve only ever been prompted to sign in for age verification
ThIs HeLpS pRoTeCt OuR cOmMuNiTy!!!
Oh they have videos now? Last time i was there it was mostly just ads
If you are lucky you get ads before a paid review of a product that was donated by the manufacturer and then ads in between
Switching the VPN server helps for me sometimes
Yeah sometimes I gotta do annoying ass captchas because of this
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.
Fair enough.
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Music on CDs
Haha yes it was your link under that Wii sports music post that I tried to watch in the browser.
Many years ago I ripped my CD collection and always live off of it. I buy CDs when I can to this day. Found my CDs in storage recently and it was just a delight picking up an album (which, parallels with vinyl too, obviously, with the advantage you don’t have to flip it in 30 minutes or less, also cassettes, MiniDisc, 8-track, you name it) and knowing from color, text, images what you’re about to play. Then physically stick it in the slot and it comes out the speakers.
I always wanted to embrace full digital, it’s so simple and convenient. Digital just can’t replicate the physical-emotional connection of an album, even if it’s “Summer Mix 2012” CDR that is old, degraded, and only plays to track 11 before it is now too degraded to be readable at the slower RPM of the outer edge of the disc.
Even with searching and tapping on a digital album cover, swiping away 3 notifications to buy car insurance, feed the dog, and remember to do squats, it just isn’t the same somehow.
Our world is so fast now, I spent years chasing it and forgot the peaceful joy that comes with slow and practical. I do miss my old CD player. Might mooch around for a second hand one as I miss exactly what you just described.
Good luck finding CDs new
Outside of some old music they aren’t really a thing anymore
Ive been seriously considering just deleting youtube and using nebula in place of youtube. Im just not sure if the subscription is worth it. I love the idea of no ads, supporting the creators directly, and not supporting google. Has anyone here tried nebula? Would love to hear your thoughts
Great platform with a ton of amazing creators. Definitely worth a subscription, but not a full replacement for yt. Revanced can at least get rid of the ads/improve ux.
I tried Nebula for a while and as the others said, it is worth it, but not enough to replace YouTube for me.
I spent a year with it, it wasn’t enough to completely replace youtube but if you have the money I definitely felt it was worth it. I only let it run out for money reasons
Would love to quit youtube if most of the people I watch move to Peertube or any other alternative, Like what happened to Twitter and people moved to Bsky
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No I don’t use a VPN
