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Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"??

From Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.software.firefox
Subject Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"??
Date 2025-08-20 16:05 +0000
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:00:09 +0100, wasbit wrote :


>>> I do not want a YouTube account.
>>>
>>> So, is this the end for YouTube when you do not have an account?
>>>
>>> If yes, which are the alternatives?
>>>
>> 
>> Doesn't happen here.
>> I get a large pop-up asking to accept or reject cookies which I always 
>> reject.
>> Windows 8.1, Pale moon, uBlock Origin.
>> 
> 
> Also tried Firefox Portable v 115.27.0 without any add-ons. No cookie 
> pop-up & Youtube videos played ok with a short advert at the start.

Hi wasbit,

You've helped me a lot over time so I'd like to pay back with information.

Please see my posts in this thread proving, step by step, it's not a
browser issue, per se, and it's not a Windows issue, per se, and it's not
an IP address issue per se, and it's not a cookies issue, per se, etc.

In the exact same session I can reliably go from Google thinking I'm a bot,
to Google thinking I'm not a bot - so it's actually rather conditional.

Gaming the Google-bot algorithm is much like gaming the Amazon Vine
invitational algorithm, where I'm currently 2 successes to 3 failures.
 <https://amazon.com/vine/about>

The algorithm is likely unknowable, most obviously because it's applied
capriciously, yet therein lies our ability to tweak past the algorithm.'

As for the OP's original questions, repeated at top and below... 
   On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:35:06 +0200, Rink wrote :
   > I do not want a YouTube account.
   > So, is this the end for YouTube when you do not have an account?
   > If yes, which are the alternatives?

I, like the OP (and many others) watch YouTube every day all day, without
ever creating a YouTube (aka Google) account, so you definitely can do it.

You just need to be intelligent about it - and - you need to do some work.

The simplest way around the YouTube account creation is to use anonymous
YouTube accounts, which abound in the thousands online via Android apps.

The most reliable is the open source YouTube-replacement named NewPipe.
 <https://newpipe.com>

Lest you worry that it "only" runs on Android, it's trivial to mirror
Android onto Windows so your phone displays two feet tall on Windows, where
the phone uses the Windows keyboard, clipboard, mouse and speaker.
        <https://i.postimg.cc/7LWJhWxq/scrcpy11.jpg> 

This only requires the Windows & Android computers being on the same net.
        <https://i.postimg.cc/Hs1ZZ5H0/scrcpy29.jpg>

There are other solutions, less handy, such as ClipGrab, YouTube-dl, 3dyd,
yt-dlp, etc., (even incorporated inside of VLC to play entire playlists),
but in reality I've tested them all but mirroring is too easy to ignore.

Note if you're on Apple devices (which I have plenty of), mirroring works
also but you can't use the open source tools anymore - but Vysor works.
  <https://i.postimg.cc/k5gv0yw8/vysor34.jpg> iOS & Android mirroring

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YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> - 2025-08-19 16:35 +0200
  Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> - 2025-08-19 16:47 +0200
    Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-08-19 07:59 -0700
      Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 22:37 +0000
      Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> - 2025-10-18 12:04 -0700
        Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-10-18 20:57 +0100
        Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-10-19 10:08 +0200
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            Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-12-14 20:24 +1100
            Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-12-14 11:05 +0000
    Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-19 16:06 +0100
    Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-08-19 11:21 -0500
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        Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-08-19 18:12 -0500
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    Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-20 00:24 +0000
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        Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-20 13:04 +0100
    Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 21:59 +0000
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  Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> - 2025-08-19 20:50 +0200
    Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-19 23:35 +0200
      Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 22:14 +0000
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          Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-20 04:07 +0000
            Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-20 13:39 +0200
              Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-20 21:57 +1000
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                Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-20 15:45 +0000
                Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> - 2025-08-21 20:27 +1000
                Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-22 08:22 +0000
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                Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 23:37 +0000
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                Re: YouTube : "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"?? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-24 03:05 +0000
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