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A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded in a news article where YouTube is throwing the error “Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.” Stitched below is a screen grab from Avengers Endgame where Captain America says, “no, I don't think I will.”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Can't use YouTube with my VPN without signing in

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I might be wrong, but it seems like creating new accounts & using new emails or at least email forwarding services should help protect our privacy a little bit.

And some thoughts about like five people:

I feel bad YouTube is punishing YouTube Premium users who wanted to do a couple searches about finding divorce lawyers or birthday gifts to buy their kids while maintaining some privacy for a couple moments. Bet if Proton bought them they would implement some URL parameter you could pass or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Google requires phone for signing up accounts.

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