I was trying to airplay a video to my tv, just like I did for hours last night, and YouTube kept demanding that I login to prove I’m not a bot. So I figured I would make a fake login on Proton. That worked fine, but then it wants to text me for verification and obviously I do not want to give them my number, but it’s rejecting every number I try from the temp number sites.

I am in Safari for iPad in a private window, using vinegar.

  • 0xC4aE1e5@lemmy.zipEnglish
    40·
    14 hours ago

    This was an attempt by Goolag to try to stop NewPipe, Invidious and similar apps, and Goolag doesn’t need your number to prove you’re not a bot, they have their own reCAPTCHA for that. Just data collection.

        • ISOmorph
          3·
          5 hours ago

          How do you dl them? yt-dlp is asking to pass credentials as well.

      • jasep@lemmy.world
        5·
        13 hours ago

        Use SmartTube on Android TV and Fire TV. Cast from Brave browser on Apple TV or Roku.

          • jasep@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 hours ago

            Me either, but it is effective at blocking YouTube ads on iOS for free 🤷🏼‍♂️

            There are other paid options, and other side loading options as well. But Brave is easy and it works. I only use it for youtube.com on my iPad, so I’m personally fine with allowance for that.

            • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              4 hours ago

              on ios there’s orion browser which is still webkit based but supports firefox extensions like ublock

              unfortunately it’s prolly never going to be foss, the devs said they were working on making it foss 2 years ago and they haven’t done anything