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Effete Snob

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

Reply to ashredux (Reply #11)

Fri Jul 28, 2023, 02:27 PM

Jul 2023

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.

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Please, pardon my lack of understanding, but why is there now a password needed to access a story [View all] ashredux Jul 2023 OP

What story; who wants a password? Ocelot II Jul 2023 #1

No idea what this post is about? BlackSkimmer Jul 2023 #2

When I click on the story with a link to a video, I get a request to put in a certain password ashredux Jul 2023 #3

Yikes, weird, I'm very suspicious so I'd probably avoid it like the plague. BlackSkimmer Jul 2023 #4

ah, that happens sometimes.... Effete Snob Jul 2023 #7

Thanks for the information ashredux Jul 2023 #11

Sure, so, basically..... Effete Snob Jul 2023 #15

I received the same thing on about 4 different stories.... Dan Jul 2023 #9

Try this... EarlG Jul 2023 #14

Thank you much! Dan Jul 2023 #25

Here is a workaround Gore1FL Jul 2023 #17

It would appear this just has a lot of restrictions to run the way it was set up as an embedded link Gore1FL Jul 2023 #13

Puppies? mitch96 Jul 2023 #24

Have you used a virus scanner or malware detector program to check your computer? Jacson6 Jul 2023 #18

That's not the problem EarlG Jul 2023 #22

It's asking you to authenticate (prove you are a human, not a bot). Nanuke Jul 2023 #21

I've seen them also and don't read the thread kimbutgar Jul 2023 #5

Are you on an iPhone by any chance? EarlG Jul 2023 #6

On an IPad ashredux Jul 2023 #8

I think this is something related to an iOS update EarlG Jul 2023 #12

If the traffic is all following a link from DU Effete Snob Jul 2023 #10

It's an iPhone/iPad setting EarlG Jul 2023 #16

Aha! Effete Snob Jul 2023 #19

I type it in a few times and it still doesn't give access. 3Hotdogs Jul 2023 #20

"Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network." I get the same thing mitch96 Jul 2023 #23

"All your story are belong to us." . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2023 #26

Avoid creating video hurdles: Post videos with fulsome descriptive / transcriptive text Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2023 #27