Every time I try to watch a video these days, YouTube generates an error: ‘Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot This helps protect our community.’ Same thing if I try using something like Freetube or Duckduckgo. Anyone have a workaround?

user1 January 8, 2025, 3:46pm 2

For now the only workaround is to rotate your ip with a VPN but YouTube is escalating on blocking unfortunately.

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