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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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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.

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Turn off VPN… solid advice.

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

If you want to view the content, its change the VPN server or use a residential IP. Residential proxies exist but are expensive and I'm not aware of any residential VPN services.

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