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Dutch_Master

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Registered: 2018-05-31

Posts: 326  

[SOLVED] Firefox anon YT browsing defunct

WTF! Just rebooted my Devuan Stable system after 3 weeks uptime. Before I could browse YT effortlessly in an anonymous browser session, but now YT demands I log in! Obviously I'm not going to, otherwise I wouldn't be using an anonymous FF window to visit YT, right?

Any way to fix this, as it worked before with this exact setup.

TIA!

Dutch_Master

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Registered: 2018-05-31

Posts: 326  

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox anon YT browsing defunct

Got an answer on the LTT forums: I've downloaded too much, too quickly so YT put my IP address on a blacklist of sorts. It'll resolve itself in a while I s'pose.

fanderal

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Registered: 2017-01-14

Posts: 133  

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox anon YT browsing defunct

Might be related to the replies in Altoid's thread:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7878

Or not.

Last edited by fanderal (2026-04-24 15:25:21)

MoonDog

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Registered: 2020-06-08

Posts: 4  

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox anon YT browsing defunct

I notice they go through phases of hardcore blocking VPN and uBlock users.  For instance using a UK VPN or some European VPN gets you a captcha, but swapping to more obscure VPN's can bypass it.  Also trying to watch certain videos gives you a demand to log in (CIA video from (possibly) VICE a few weeks back is one I've noticed a late).

My suggestion is VPN and use uBlock with all of the blocklists enabled, CanvasBlocker enabled and self destructing cookies.  For me it works maybe 99% of the time, but some videos you can forget about it.