I’m not even using a VPN (FreeTube).

Invidious time it is, I guess.

Edit: I slept the night and it works now for some reason. Maybe it was just a bad dream.

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    I use invidious, but there’s come a point, after 3 or 4 tries, I just use the embedded link. Privacy is like security. Make it as hard for the other person as possible without making it impossible for yourself

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    If I may suggest, already start finding alternatives where those you follow are. Helps with both timeouts, and at making less painful to stop using Youtube altogether if/when the need comes.

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      youtube has become my defacto time-wasting platform since i’ve eschewed all other american social media platforms.

      sometimes, i feels like i’ve regressed back down to 2005 because of it. lol

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    In my experience this should go away after some hours, alternatively you can obtain a new IP address (powercycling your router, switching to mobile data etc, depending on your set up).

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    Can confirm it happens even with residential IPs recently, good thing I don’t have static or ‘sticky’ IP so I’m not blocked too long.

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      I am glad YouTube hasn’t blocked me even though I only access it with ytdl-sub nowadays, as I have had the same non-static IP for over 2 years now.

      I am honestly assuming my ISP noticed I am self hosting stuff that only I can access and gave me a free static IP, because that shit hasn’t rotated even after a half dozen power day long power outages, and multiple day long service outages.

      Not to mention the dozens of times I have had to reboot my modem for various reasons.

      I have no way to check, but i honestly think it survived a modem replacement in my early days of self hosting (modem partially fried itself in an… interesting fashion).

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          Not quite.

          Port 3 fried completely (and fried the ethernet on a PC mobo), LAN devices could no longer see WLAN devices, ports 1 and 4 could see eachother, port 2 couldn’t see anything, but everything could still access WAN.

          Edit: and having something in port 3 meant the other ports couldn’t access WAN.

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    If you have an IPv6 prefix, you could look into rotating your IPv6 address every time YouTube blocks you.