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Noxious ,

Personally I run everything behind a VPN. Browsing the web without one kinda feels like a bad idea, like why should I expose my approximate home location to every website I go to and every server I connect to? Why should I let my ISP see which websites I'm visiting? And why should I trust my government to have access to all of that data?

kionite231 ,

Youtube nowadays has started requiring sign in to view the content. However the only affected IPs are of Invidious instances.

Noxious ,

the only affected IPs are of Invidious instances

That's not true, I just got a "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" message on the official fucking YouTube website using Firefox behind Mullvad VPN. It's also very common to see this on Piped instances. The invidious team seems to have developed a fix though: https://github.com/iv-org/youtube-trusted-session-generator

CaptainBasculin ,

Not needed (unless the target site is blocked in your country); as the videos themselves are publicly viewable. yt-dlp behaves like a typical viewer to these sites.

Sunny OP ,

Thanks for the info :)

Bougie_Birdie ,
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Just so you have a heads up:

If you use yt-dlp like a regular user, you shouldn’t have a problem. If you use it to download like a thousand videos at once then YouTube may block you out or rate limit you or something.

If that happens, or that’s your use case, then you may need to use a VPN

Sunny OP ,

Good to know, appreciate the heads up :)

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