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YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in...

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Copy URL, yt-dlp <dat URL>.

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    • adub@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just hit up that mpv & skip a few steps after installing yt-dlp mpv <dat URL>

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Grayjay can get around that issue in most cases.

    grayjay.app

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    • alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unfortunately that is proprietary softwar, I.e. it restricts the users four essential freedoms :/

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      • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Whats wrong with it? its open source: gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

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      • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Men, as long as it works… I can always switch off grayjay

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  • letsgo2themall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    freetube for windows and linux. newpipe for android.

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    • leadore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m having the same issue on Freetube, it pops up and says it can’t play the video because Youtube requires being signed in. Sometimes if I retry a couple of time it’ll play, but usually keeps getting the same error. Freetube is great though, maybe they’ll come up with a solution soon.

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      • negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Agreed, my up-to-date freetube is having problems today.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Make sure you update frequeny

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    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, neither fixes this. Grayjay seems to work, but its inconsistent in my experience.

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      • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Grayjay is useless on Linux. Every video suddenly stops halfway and you need to reload. Same for every video. Talking about music videos, 5-6 min long.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Freetube is a Invidious client. Newpipe has its own build in scraper

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Newpipe is working

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    • redacted2@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      no desktop for newpipe? is it just the android app?

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You can use Waydroid

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      • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There is Piped, which is a web version of NewPipe

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Huge, got worried

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  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m once again asking you to host Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend) locally on your PC.

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    • Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The real problem is that it’s a pain sometimes and the fact they suggest to restart every hour is even worse. Recently, I had a problem where it started to play some videos and then stopped the playback and from there it went in a reloading loop till you get something like “The media playback is broken”

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      • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        IDK about invidious, but on Piped I had to add a container that grabs POtokens for the Newpipe API to use to pull videos.

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      • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        For me, it’s running for months and I had to load new image updates sometimes, because YouTube likes to break it, but this was maybe once a month…

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How does one embark on such a journey?

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      • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Quite easy with Docker: docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-me…

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  • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If you click Cancel and then simply search for the same video you can watch it without signing in. Total horseshit but still a good ‘fuck you’ move against YouTube.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So bots just have to sign in?

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Revance it

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    • Luffy879@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Revanced still uses microG

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  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean that’s a way to check for bots

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve just stopped watching. Plenty of other stuff to do. If they don’t want to show me their ads that’s their problem.

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    this is likely youtube’s way of trying to persuade people into making an account, without going public that they are forcing people to make accounts.

    I found it does that if im logged out on a VPN, but standard residential IP’s it doesn’t with.

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    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It sounds like they’re getting ready for age verification, which will be mandated in some countries this year.

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      • Pazuzu@midwest.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’ve required an account to watch age restricted videos for years now

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I only speak for myself but the day they require it, bye. I’ll miss the creators that I follow but the ones I directly patron through other ways, I’ll watch elsewhere. I get that servers cost money but Google isn’t losing money, they just want more.

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      • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Realistically we didn’t need it before YouTube existed and I should be fine without it, but I think it’ll be tough, I don’t have an aerial for FTA tv anymore, nor a tv in my bedroom and I don’t really want to sign up for a subscription streaming service. Plus a decent chunk of my employers use YouTube as end point for the videos I edit so that could be a bit of a hit too. There’s always reading I guess, that might be doubly necessary if I end up poorer and can’t afford much else.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As someone without a YT account, I have seen this with regards to age verification (on rather random videos, actually), but not with “you might be a bot” reason.

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Since I always browse with VPN + lots of privacy protections, I feel like half the websites I visit think I’m a bot. It’s a pain in the arse.

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      • graphene@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Turns out reCAPTCHAs aren’t actually ‘tracking the way you move your mouse’ but just trying to match you to one of the billions of statistical models held in Google datacenters that represent the device fingerprints, personalities, locations, and preferences of every Internet user they track.

        And when they fail to match you… then they presume you’re not a real person.

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    • Manalith@midwest.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is usually because they’re using a common VPN service. I’ve found that connecting to Ireland gets me past this prompt more often than not, but that likely won’t last long.

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      • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        VPN Ireland has been my go-to for years. If it stops I’m gonna be pissed.

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  • hulfpa@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s been happening to me lately also. I’ve used NewPipe on Android to get around to.

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  • Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    GrayJay

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also has this problem. For me, the issue is vpn, so I switch to a random server that hasn’t been blacklisted

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    • orize@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FreeTube

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      • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        FreeTube isn’t working for IP related issues atm, I’m having more luck with NewPipe

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  • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Have a look at peertube, it’s gotten to a point where it can definitely supplement YT.

    !peertube@lemmy.world

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    • Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Peertube is great, I wish more people started uploading their content to it

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If deaf and the large majority of peertube videos don’t have captions :/

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      • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        At least from what I’ve seen, a lot more videos than in the past seem to have transcripts and captions, including automatically generated captions. I recently moved all my old YT videos (mostly German YoutubePoops from the early 2010s) over to peertube.wtf and they had automatic captions generated without input on my end, in English and German both.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        hmmm should probably find their request list and vote up AI captioning

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It isn’t even close to YouTube.

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      • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s no lie, hence supplement, not replace. But the community can only grow, if people start using it more, even just a little bit in addition to YT where it works for them.

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  • HailSeitan@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have had some success just by reloading the page when I get this message

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  • Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean its lame but it’s pretty much standard at this point. Gotta make an account to use anything these days.

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    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My solution is to avoid services that are anti-lurker.

      If im not able to view it without logging in, i just accept it, not watch it, and move on with my life.

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      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        IG ain’t gonna get me.

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  • ShyCake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Happens to me every now and then, I just switch vpn servers, then it works fine. It’s inconsistent, the same server that was suspicious one day is fine the next. I’m guessing it depends on how many youtube videos are being streamed on that particular sever at that time

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    welcome to my life

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