• Lenny@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    19 hours ago

    Lately while on VPN I’m able to watch videos and sometime have to solve a captcha to prove I’m not a bot, but if I’m using nothing (at home on WiFi) it’ll ask me to sign in to make sure I’m not a bot 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️… Like wtf

    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      12 hours ago

      Because there is a lot of traffic from the same IP and the site get suspicious

      • Lenny@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        11 hours ago

        Yeah, so I understand why I have to solve a captcha when using VPN, but I literally (at times) cannot use YT ‘anonymously’ from my residential IP without signing in to an account.

        • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          11 hours ago

          Usually ISPs don’t give a unique IP to every user but sometimes they give the same IP to more people, so based on what they did it can happend that you may get limited/banned or have to solve many captchas