The justification, security wise, is that they can’t really tell what the intent is when OP connects.
The other justification is that they also want to be able to track you via an account.
Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off
Limonene@lemmy.world 2 days agoOP isn’t trying to post, just trying to view. There is no justification for a captcha there.
LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
simple@lemm.ee 2 days ago
There is, AI bots are scraping the entire internet and overloading servers by downloading everything. That’s literally why every website is adding captchas and hiding behind Cloudflare now.
nyancatec@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Huh, and yet yt to mp4/3 websites work flawlessly on all videos and music. Either both humans and bots get to see it or Noone at all.
LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Or it’s just a shit system that doesn’t work entirely correctly. Which is evidently the case considering how inundated with bots YT is.