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submitted 3 weeks ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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First time this happens to me. With a German protonvpn server.

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't believe anyone mentioned this yet so... here goes nothing, there is a suspicion that this is due to A/B testing

This is a bug report from the Invidious project; this is back in June 6 (so four months ago), but the hoster of a fairly large instance noted a very bizarre error message on the Invidious project...

Conclusion is that Youtube is very likely rolling out A/B testing of requiring all clients to login before viewing videos

Refreshing will probably work considering this is most likely result of an A/B test, but unfortunately I don't see a way of this problem going away

[–] mattreb@feddit.it 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Invidious public instances have been completely blocked by this, it's no longer AB testing. IDK exactly what triggers it but, too many requests from the same ip is going to show this now... maybe OP vpn exits with an ip shared by too many...