They hate VPNs

  • This2ShallPass@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Now that all he major AI companies have scraped all of the YouTube videos, Google wants to prevent others from getting into the market.

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    17 hours ago

    Oh, they know you’re not a robot. They’re just having trouble tracking you.

  • tomatolung@sopuli.xyz
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    21 hours ago

    Seal, YTDLnis, Newpipe, Tubular, freetube, etc… So many alternative options.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      19 hours ago

      I think alternative clients meet the same fate:

      This is Newpipe (latest version):

      (I hid the video title for privacy reasons)

      Like they literally refuse to send the video packets until you do the captcha (or in worse cases, force a log in). There is no magic app that bypass it. You can work around the ads, you can’t work around a log-in/captcha wall.

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        17 hours ago

        Have you tried going through an invidious instance? Freetube does that so I don’t think the VPN is really necessary. You are already accessing YT through a proxy of sort with invidious.

        As long as YT bans lists of VPN IPs there is no point in complaining about it. Either find a VPN that is not blocked or go the Invidious route but there isn’t many approach…

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      16 hours ago

      There are no real alternatives to YouTube really. Their video library is orders of magnitude larger than all the competitors combined.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    They hate VPNs

    Well, that’s because they get less data about you when you use a VPN. Google being Google are not gonna love that are they?

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    They hate VPNs

    I have no issues with my VPN. Which one do you have? Did you switch servers to see if it fixed the issue? Generally Google gives these prompts when there are many requests from a single IP address. When you have a proper VPN service, all connections will be spread out over many servers so there won’t be a lot of people behind a single IP address, so there won’t be that many requests to Google servers. This will solve the issue. I have Proton VPN, I never have these prompts anymore since I switched to Proton.

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      16 hours ago

      Switching to an EU country usually fixes this for me. When they ask me to sign in I change my country to Germany on the VPN and I don’t have to sign in anymore. The video plays.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    Don’t use a VPN to login then. S

    Seriously though a VPN doesn’t do much for privacy in the age of Google.

    (Better yet, use Newpipe)