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Anyone else experiencing...
The blockage of utoob videos by the demand for a sign-in to prove you're not a bot?
I have dumped my cache and rebooted and everything. Whether embedded on DU or straight on utoob, they demand a sign-in to watch anything.
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Otherwise until you do and expect this elsewhere moving forward, but also get the UBlock lite or Ublock Origin extensions, and don't use Chrome or Edge browsers.
Brave, Vivaldi, Pale Moon, Opera, yadda yadda
If you need to ask why those 2 browsers, don't, they are run by Google and M$, and a silly question at this point that I just answered.
I bailed on googel when they decided that I couldn't access my email when I traveled or, sometimes, at home and eventually not at all. I got a new email provider and I have never used krome or any other googel login thing. I have used firefox since it's been available and I don't use G's search anymore either. Stopped using that years ago too.
This is a new development and, from now on, when it is happening I will choose to avoid the platform for some stretch of time before bothering with it again. I am not in a time sensitive situation where I have to know everything right now. I can live without googel and it's products, just need to know which adjustments I need to make.
The same account by the way will be used for image.google.com and for generic searching: startpage.com [no logging.]
If worried about Windows, get a mini computer or use an old one just for emails and bill paying, so no real account business is on your main gaming/surfing rig?
Limits "windows" of opportunity down a ton!
Good advice but the only games I play are the geography and words puzzles, like wordle, and globle and I don't sign in to those either. I avoid subscriptions online. I don't do any banking or password management, don't submit anything to any kind of cloud.
I do have several restrictions on my browser and an additional protection software package so I anticipate some sites not working, it's when sites that usually work just fine suddenly demand a sign in that I question what's going on. Especially since the problem goes away after a time with little to no effort other than waiting. Just seems odd, wondered if anyone else had this happen and, if so, what they did or found out about it. Wasn't expecting weird lecture series from some respondents... see above.
Thanks. 
A couple weeks ago, I have changed nothing in that time. Not using a VPN. Guess I'll just go without from now on, fuck utoob and the need to sell my private data. I'll get the info eventually.
I have changed nothing.
Suddenly, as of a couple weeks ago, this started happening regardless of my location or ISP.
And, just like that, the videos now play for me. It's as weird as that. I shouldn't have to provide any ore info than I have for people to simply answer yes or no so I can have a direction to look into.
So it has never happened to you and you say you have nothing to add to the conversation, really, so...
Now they will play for me. All I did was complain and suddenly they are back to playing normally.
Funny how that works.
the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Now that makes a little more sense. Though I don't use a VPN, my location that shows is not my actual location as it show where the provider is located.
It's intermittent so I am curious about how this is a thing. Thanks.
Never used a VPN. This just happens randomly. I'll watch a couple videos and sometime afterward when I try to watch one, suddenly none will play no matter what I do short of "signing in". And a little while later it's like nothing happened.
