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[–] sudo@programming.dev 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

I only ever get this when I'm on a VPN. Sometimes reddit will do that to me too. It means someone's been abusing/scraping YouTube through your VPN server and they've temporarily blacklisted its IP address. Switch your VPN servers or turn off your VPN.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My VPN gets blocked on reddit and YT and it's my private server, OpenVPN on a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam. What the hell?

[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

They can tell the IP of your server is nonresidential and don't trust it either. But I'd expect it to sometimes work.

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