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

  • zlatiah@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 days ago

    I don’t believe anyone mentioned this yet so… here goes nothing, there is a suspicion that this is due to A/B testing

    This is a bug report from the Invidious project; this is back in June 6 (so four months ago), but the hoster of a fairly large instance noted a very bizarre error message on the Invidious project…

    Conclusion is that Youtube is very likely rolling out A/B testing of requiring all clients to login before viewing videos

    Refreshing will probably work considering this is most likely result of an A/B test, but unfortunately I don’t see a way of this problem going away

    • mattreb@feddit.it
      1·
      5 days ago

      Invidious public instances have been completely blocked by this, it’s no longer AB testing. IDK exactly what triggers it but, too many requests from the same ip is going to show this now… maybe OP vpn exits with an ip shared by too many…

  • parpol@programming.dev
    14·
    7 days ago

    This is the result of them blocking invidious. They targeted large Datacenter nodes and check for the number of requests from those datacenters that aren’t logged in, and block them until that number meets a certain threshold. This also causes people with VPNs to get this message. The solution is to connect to smaller self-hosted invidious instances or using proxies hosted on normal residential ips.

  • Onihikage@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    Try clicking the sign in button, then navigating back to the video without actually signing in. Seems to work every time I’ve tried it so far.

  • disguised_doge@kbin.earth
    7·
    7 days ago

    Been seeing that a fair bit too lately. Freetube, Grayjay, and Newpipe seem so sometimes get around it, even if the error is in the browser the video will sometimes load in those apps from the same IP. If you get lucky and find a working invidious/piped instance that might work too.

    Otherwise, turning on a VPN and switching between servers will usually eventually lead to a working one. That, and if you’re up for it, check to see if your favorite creators are on places like Peertube, Odysee, or Rumble that don’t block IPs like YouTube does.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    It’s a VPN thing. I have a work VPN that gives me the same error on piped API front ends like piped.video

    If I use my regular device without a VPN the alt front ends work fine.

  • Chump [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    the stupidest thing about this is that I literally am signed into youtube (yeah yeah, I know), and I still get this shit!

  • serenissi@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    This can be a soft limit where Youtube limits the connection rate so that artificially inflating view count becomes more costly. There are inexpensive ‘services’ especially in India or Pakistan where you can buy human (like a whole internet cafe) view times to your scam video to make it float in suggestions and to promote a channel.

    I don’t work for youtube so it is just a guess.

  • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    6 days ago

    SmartTube, my go-to way to watch, is having issues again today too. I presume it is to make people subscribe to YouTube premium but my first thought was to use Nebula instead.