Please, pardon my lack of understanding, but why is there now a password needed to access a story

[ashredux]

[Ocelot II]

1. What story; who wants a password?

[BlackSkimmer]

2. No idea what this post is about?

Perhaps a wee bit of context?

[ashredux]

3. When I click on the story with a link to a video, I get a request to put in a certain password

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Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?

IP address: 2a02:26f7:d15f:4000:1b0b:a3c4:8143:5e87
Time: 2023-07-28T19:17:38Z
URL: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WKwLXTXlwIw?rel=0

[BlackSkimmer]

4. Yikes, weird, I'm very suspicious so I'd probably avoid it like the plague.

But maybe someone can help you in the computer forum.

[Effete Snob]

7. ah, that happens sometimes....

First off, that is an age-restricted YouTube video, so you have to be logged into your account to view it.

Second, Google has systems that try to stop certain forms of robot traffic. Unfortunately, those systems can sometimes detect a false positive (or your browser or system could be compromised by a bot of some kind).

Here are common reasons why that happens:

https://www.makeuseof.com/google-unusual-traffic-error-fix/

[ashredux]

11. Thanks for the information

[Effete Snob]

15. Sure, so, basically.....

There are a lot of techniques people use in order to boost their Youtube view count, or to obtain high search ranking by creating "links-in" to things from a lot of different places.

If a link was posted to DU and either (a) a lot of people clicked on it or (b) a robot is crawling DU and engorging itself on DU content, then it might look like the link on DU is part of one of those view count inflation or search engine ranking techniques.

Google (who runs YouTube) has a system that, in some situations, will attempt to distinguish between human traffic and fake traffic, in order to prevent gaming of view counts or search engine rank.

That's what you are running into.

[Dan]

9. I received the same thing on about 4 different stories....

Do we have an answer, because it really is a pain in the ass.

I’m also on an iPad.

[EarlG]

14. Try this...

https://www.iphonetricks.org/getting-google-captcha-on-iphone-ipad-mac/

[Dan]

25. Thank you much!

That works…

[Gore1FL]

17. Here is a workaround

Take the provided URL and look for everything between the last "/" and the "?" https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WKwLXTXlwIw?rel=0


Change the url to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= and append what you copied from the last link (with no spaces).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKwLXTXlwIw


Becasue this particular video is age restricted, you will need to logon to Youtube using an 18+ account.

[Gore1FL]

13. It would appear this just has a lot of restrictions to run the way it was set up as an embedded link

This is the vdieo you were looking for. becasue of it;s restrictions it probably requires an 18+ youtube account.

[mitch96]

24. Puppies?

[Jacson6]

18. Have you used a virus scanner or malware detector program to check your computer?

You are also accessing a web site with a fake youtube.com URL. It should always be youtube.com on the page web site address.

[EarlG]

22. That's not the problem

Folks should check out the link I posted elsewhere in this thread for a possible fix.

Also, youtube-nocookie.com is not fake, it’s a legit YouTube address.

[Nanuke]

21. It's asking you to authenticate (prove you are a human, not a bot).

It’s not asking you for a password. It is asking you to type in the characters that appear twisted or tangled. Deciphering requires human cognition.

[kimbutgar]

5. I've seen them also and don't read the thread

Tried doing the codes three times can’t get the story.

Please get rid of this feature DU!

[EarlG]

6. Are you on an iPhone by any chance?

This is not a DU update btw.

[ashredux]

8. On an IPad

[EarlG]

12. I think this is something related to an iOS update

See if anything at this link helps:

https://www.iphonetricks.org/getting-google-captcha-on-iphone-ipad-mac/

[Effete Snob]

10. If the traffic is all following a link from DU

...then Google might be looking at the identical http-referer from a bunch of incoming traffic and thinking it is SEO or view count spam.

[EarlG]

16. It's an iPhone/iPad setting

Google and Apple aren’t playing nicely together for some reason. That’s why this is only happening to people when they’re using an iOS device and looking at a page with a YouTube video.

Turning off Hide IP Address from Trackers in Safari settings seems to fix it.

[Effete Snob]

19. Aha!

[3Hotdogs]

20. I type it in a few times and it still doesn't give access.

Then I give up.

Da fuck?

[mitch96]

23. "Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network." I get the same thing

If I copy paste the url it works. If I copy paste it into Firefox, it works...
It's a waste of my time to play this game. I just don't read it..
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[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. "All your story are belong to us." . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Avoid creating video hurdles: Post videos with fulsome descriptive / transcriptive text

... if you must post a video.

Today, somebody posted an age-restricted video on DU to avoid typing a six word slogan.