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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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[–] 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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