12mo ago

Did YouTube just become login-only?

I'm scared

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I just keep hoping it gets bad enough for something better to flourish in its place
- I mean....peer tube is available.
  
  Creators won't go there because (a) almost none even know about it (b) there's no audience there for the ones that do and (c) there's no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.
  Audiences won't go there because (a) even fewer people who watch youtube would know what peertube is or that it exists and (b) creators are not natively there leading to a loop.
  Those things need to be fixed first.
  
  It's available but not flourishing last I checked. Just to be clear I'm not denigrating it at all, I desperatelywant it to flourish. I pay for nebula, too, as well as patreon for many of my preferred creators, in the hopes that they can explore alternatives to YouTube. Hell, I pay for floatplane and dropout too, as much as I hate the fractured environment it's creating, I want the most direct way to support the content I watch, but YouTube is almost certainly still my most watched platform
- Anyone know how Nebula is going these days?
  
  Really well last I heard
- Things would have to get massively shitty for that to happen. The volume of content on YouTube will be extremely difficult to replicate.
  Just as a reference look at reddit. They've suffered a loss of users but they're not going down anytime soon and while lemmy still isn't going to take over anytime soon. There's just too much inertia...
- Odysee
- In the meantime: Piped or Invidious.
Just tested a few countries through vpns in private browsing, didn't get blocked at all.
Could just be that your ip has been temporarily blocked for being "suspicious"?
- I use a VPN so it might be the app. I'll maybe switch it up and check back tomorrow
no?
- Same for me. I can watch YouTube (except for the "mature" content that they've required login for for forever) without logging in just fine.
  Maybe YouTube is A/B testing.
  
  Why meeee lord?
  
  If this is true, try to swing the results in your favor. Don't succumb and log in, just close YouTube.
Just tested on an incognito tab while logged out. Still works.
I bet it's a browser thing. On FireFox I cannot load the YouTube homepage until i login, but on Chrome it's perfectly fine.
- Chrome already knows who you are without needing to login
  
  Also true.
Have you tried Invidious?
Or poketube?
- Its working in my browser, hopefully app gets updated
My sons are watching YT right now using Guest access on the AppleTV app.
I'm using tubular and even age restricted videos are working like a charm..

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