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You can't even download stuff anymore (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/technology@hexbear.net
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it's not an option to even download an image, I have to screenshot, now what screen record videos?

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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

This is new to me. Seems I have to set up a simulated browser using a command or program called curl? What do I need to understand to not screw this up?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Using a vpn is usually not going to work with anything that hits youtube. Google are really fast at putting captchas on anonymised traffic which breaks most 3rd party access

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I was downloading youtube videos just fine with a vpn until a couple weeks ago. I have no idea what changed.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago*

    Bots will use VPN nodes as cheap proxies. They will abuse it until google bans the IP for abuse. The bots rotate to a new node and continue. Real users are also banned from that node as well until google forgives it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Google eventually get savvy to it. Your options are try again without a vpn, try with the session cookies from a logged in session, or wait until yt-dl patch whatever fresh hell google are doing to block you

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    if the problem is your vpn then it won't help. the tooling is probably already included in your yt-dlp. just put --impersonate chrome on the end of your call in the terminal

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    yt_dlp.utils.YoutubeDLError: Impersonate target "chrome" is not available. Use --list-impersonate-targets to see available targets. You may be missing dependencies required to support this target.

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