Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?

• tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m getting it constantly in my old reddit app. Seems if it doesn’t recognize your browser fingerprint it will call you a bot.

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  • TurboLag@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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    • xylol@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That happened to me but it lasts like a month. No one in the house could watch YouTube lol

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