What’s up with YouTube?
- Thread starter Wallet
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If you are not one, why would you complain if they ask you to verify that you are not one?
*Wallet is Skynet. It had to start somewhere.*
Not Skynet, We are Borg.If you are not one, why would you complain if they ask you to verify that you are not one?
*Wallet is Skynet. It had to start somewhere.*
I’ve never had to do this until today. Every time I go to youtube I have to go through a picture puzzle before I can watch a video.
Not Skynet, We are Borg.
I’ve never had to do this until today. Every time I go to youtube I have to go through a picture puzzle before I can watch a video.
I'm not seeing it on my end. Are you logged into a Youtube account when clicking videos? I'm doing it on a PC with an account, not on a phone. Using Google Chrome on Win 7.
That just happened to me, but I was clicking on a video that came up in search results. When doing this youtube can't tell who you are, and they want to track you with a cookie. If you are on their site you should not get this request, as they automatically put the tracking cookie on your machine. At least that is the way it appears to me.
I don’t have an account with Youtube/Google. It’s never been an issue clicking on youtube or by link until today. Don’t really care to have their cookies tracking me. I normally use a private setting while browsing.
Edit, if it’s something I really want to watch I’ll jump through their hoops. But I won’t be surfing YouTube anymore.
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You can use hooktube seemlessly to view youtube videos without their crap. May want to look into it.
Baron
ET Founder
Any time you see them trying to verify you are a real person means they have recently faced problems with automated programs and scripts browsing their site. For example, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to write a script to have a web crawler browse YouTube for the purposes of artificially inflating view numbers on certain videos. Once YouTube detects what's going on, they will throw in a human verification randomly to make sure that there are legitimate users actually watching the videos and not automated web crawlers.
At first I thought it was a censorship issue but now I see it happens regardless of what video I want to view or how I access their site.
Once in, I can view whatever, no issues until I close the browser, clearing their cookies I assume. Then repeat next time. It’s a pain but hey, it’s their site.
Thanks for the explanation.
Not Skynet, We are Borg.
I’ve never had to do this until today. Every time I go to youtube I have to go through a picture puzzle before I can watch a video.
Are you using a VPN? If so, Google has required that authentication for some time now.