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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.
That would explain why I get this too, but only some days and not others. Thanks for the insight (not OP)
Mullvad with a Ukrainian server works fine for some reason. But it's a PITA to do, that's why I don't go to YouTube anymore.
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?
They can tell the IP of your server is nonresidential and don't trust it either. But I'd expect it to sometimes work.
I've seen a few places they started blanket banning data centre ip ranges since late last year.
Its been doing this to me for at least a year now. I don't have a VPN. I look at old.reddit using duck duck go browser without an account. There's no way I'm going to watch a bunch of random videos while logged in. It would completely screw up their absolute shit recommendation algorithm.
I would guess you're using a bunch of privacy protecting features that's preventing them from verifying your browser/device. Unfortunately, being anonymous is the same as looking like a bot.
Use NewPipe. It only ever gets blocked if you're on VPN or if YouTube did an api update and the app needs to update to match.
Only thing I use is the duck duck go browser. The problem is any YouTube links I come across. I'm just not going to click them anymore and I'm not interested enough to try to find a link for YouTube on newpipe. I'm not going to watch random videos like I did before while logged out of YouTube because it wont let me anymore. I'm certainly not going to watch them while logged in because it would screw up the shitty recommendation algorithm even worse.
Turn off VPN… solid advice.
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.