Youtube forcing to sign in

tekkaman

tekkaman

Hello everyone,

I don't know if this is an issue for some of you. Youtube is a website that I use often. But I always browse the site without signing in. I watch videos there about music, anime, etc. In the past week I've been pestered with a message: Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This will make the community safer. I think it's either one of these things:

1- They're jumping to the show me your ID wagon
2- They want to prevent video downloads

Any of you had this problem?
 
tekkaman said:
Hello everyone,

I don't know if this is an issue for some of you. Youtube is a website that I use often. But I always browse the site without signing in. I watch videos there about music, anime, etc. In the past week I've been pestered with a message: Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This will make the community safer. I think it's either one of these things:

1- They're jumping to the show me your ID wagon
2- They want to prevent video downloads

Any of you had this problem?
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The same happens regularly to me, no matter if I try accessing youtube directly or through a link.
I'm on Win7 (web only) and always on VPN (better safe than sorry), which might as well be the cause of the problem: they may want to record who's watching what in order to build up a massive database of potential ad targets that Google or whoever else would buy for dear money - nihil sub sole novum :(
 
TMTGTR said:
Are you using VPN tekkaman?
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Nope. No VPN at all. And it happens no matter which device I use. Linux, Windows or Android. Watch a few videos and I get the message. Weirdly enough it all started after all this talk about requiring OS's to have all the people's IDs. That's why I thought it might be related to that.
 
I have not had the problem you're describing with any browser thus far, even when I sign out of YT. For a while, I had been commenting on many video's and got sick of having to constantly sign in just for that, so I added YT to my Allowed Cookie list.
 
tekkaman said:
It only happens if you've never signed in like me. I've never signed in to Youtube in my life.
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I have never signed into YouTube either. I am not much of a consumer of YT type content. I do use it for application videos (e.g. "How to bleed the lethal voltage from your guitar amp without DYING" I paraphrase of course. :oops:

So I'll usually preview the YT via Invidious frontend:
And If I need a copy of the vid, I use yt-dlp for XP!
https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases -> Show all assets, 1st time get the yt-dlp_x86_winXP.zip. Then you can update by just swapping out new yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe with old yt-dlp.exe (I like to rename the exe)
(DO Not update via command line -U for XP version!) yt-dlp updates ~2x Month or more.

FWIW, my commands:
1) yt-dlp.exe --list-formats https://www.youtube(DOT)com/etc.
2) After getting formats (I usually stick with 480p or 360p but they're all there) I'll command line e.g.:
yt-dlp.exe --continue --format 18+139 https://www.youtube(DOTcom/etc

Definitions:
--continue (if you lose connection just paste the command back in and it picks up where it left off.

--format (after looking at available formats, you can mix and match. I recommend putting the vid format number before the audio format number) 18 (360p .mp4)+139 (129kbps .m4a)

other commands:
yt-dlp.exe --continue --write-auto-subs --convert-subs srt --format xxx+xxx https://www(DOT)youtube.com/etc
I like to choose the .webm formats if available (Higher quality IMHO same size) but some times only the audio is available, or I want an .mp4 container for the .webm version for some reason:
--remux-video mp4
E.g
yt-dlp.exe --continue --write-auto-subs --convert-subs srt --format xxx+xxx --remux-video mp4 https://www.youtube(DOT)com/etc

Oh yea on last IMPORTANT! thing. Put ffmpeg.exe & ffprobe.exe in the yt-dlp directory.
XP get here:
Download FFMPEG 7.1 For XP (XP Mod, otherwise use the current ffmpeg & libfdk-aac builds)
https://rwijnsma.home.xs4all.nl/files/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-7.1-2362-6aafe61-win32-static-xpmod-sse.7z
(Note: The developer has stopped updating ffmpeg for XP)
 
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