LogFAQs > #976898031

I have no idea what is going on, the current theory is that it is a kind of shadow ban, where all you need to do is switch accounts or view videos as logged out (e.g. with private browsing). Also none of this affects people who use things like MPV's feature to play youtube links.

I suspect at some point someone is just going to create a browser extension to play Youtube videos without Youtube's frontend (there are sites that do this but they're all kinda eh).

I think someone had the idea that if you change the video source to a different domain (like the legacy google video domain) it solves the problem. I might see if I can hack together a userscript to address this.

Keep in mind I think embed links youtube.com/embed/<video id> are unaffected by this, which might be an easy solution (just create a userscript redirect). I'm about to go to bed, but I could probably do this in 10 minutes in the morning as I already have a redirect script for shorts.