First time this happens to me. With a German protonvpn server.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    YouTube doesn’t like VPNs. Harder to track you (and sell/monetize your data) if they can’t tell who you are.

    • Skvlp@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      I desperately want a viable alternative to come along. There’s a lot of great content on YouTube, but the platform is increasingly being enshitified.

          • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            There’s nothing “disgusting” about nudity. You should shake off those preconceived cultural biases, you’ll be a better person.

      • Peffse@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Youtube does a ton of evil stuff, but this one is more tame. I suspect the VPN was used to bot and got banned, so the sign-in is required to better target where the traffic is allowed to go, instead of blanket banning everybody using the service.

        • kbal@fedia.io
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          1 month ago

          I suspect the VPN was used to bot

          There are plenty of sources, including even in this thread, indicating that that this is not the problem. Quit making excuses for them.

  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    You’re on Android use NewPipe and it’s forks, personally I prefer Tubular and PipePipe.

    Periodically YouTube will break, but both of those forks, as well as new pipe prime, update fairly quickly.

    GrayJay is interesting… It has different feel and feature set than newpipe, but it’s worth using. I will say I get more login errors with GrayJay, but closing the app and reopening it resolves them immediately.

    All the piped apps will be in f-droid/droidify, you can download GrayJay directly, or just scan the QR to add the repo to a FOSS repo manager.