Is this happening to everybody or just me?

[Firestorm49]

When hitting on a post with a video, I’m taken to a screen that says I must sign in to YouTube to view the video.
First, I’m already signed in to YouTube at the time.
Secondly, when I hit it to “sign in” I am directed into a page of videos that have nothing to do with the one from DU that I wanted to see.
Am I the only one having this problem or is there a setting to get directly into YouTube to view a video, as I used to do for years.
I will not spend half of my morning chasing down a video.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Not to me.

[Firestorm49]

4. This just started happening recently.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Some videos cannot be embedded directly into DU

Those are the only ones I have the sign in problem with, and they are rare.

[Firestorm49]

7. On mine it happens with every video.

[Meadowoak]

3. Yes, same thing happens to me.

[Firestorm49]

5. Any suggestions on how to ease the entry to YouTube?

[Walleye]

6. I just tapped the corner of the frame that usually says YouTube and it sends me there

[Firestorm49]

8. Yes. Mine does too, but the video that I want to see is not actually selected to view.

I get an array of somewhat related videos, but not the one that I chose to view.

[spooky3]

27. Me too nt

[ret5hd]

9. i believe what is happening...

is
1) someone posts a video on DU
2) a flurry of clicks makes YT algorithm believe bots are clicking, so YT “blocks” clicks from DU

my workaround (on iphone anyway) when i get that problem:

1) reload page (to get rid of that error)
2) tap towards the bottom right part of the YT “window”
3) for me, that opens the video directly in YT.

[Firestorm49]

11. Much appreciated. I'll give it a try.

[patphil]

33. It works! Thank you.

I use NordVPN, and don't have to disable it to make it work by clicking on the lower right corner of the window.

[meow2u3]

10. Youtube requires signing in to view age-restricted videos

I've had that problem, too. It turns out that some videos are age restricted to 18+. We all get that sign in page in that circumstance.

[Firestorm49]

12. Thanks. When did this start happening on your end?

[EarlG]

13. This is solely a YouTube problem

And unfortunately I have no idea why they're doing this. There is some speculation that they're doing A/B testing to decide whether to require that all embedded videos require sign in, but who knows.

The bottom line is that when you see a YouTube embed on DU, you're essentially seeing the actual YouTube site, tucked into a DU page. The embed contains YouTube's own code, and we have no control over what they do with that code within those embeds.

So I'm afraid there is no solution to this (that I know of) at the moment...

Edited to add: meow2u3 is correct that some YouTube videos are age restricted and require sign-in before they can be viewed, or are required to be viewed on the YouTube site itself. However, I'm not sure that's entirely what's going on here -- from the reports I've been seeing, it's happening on videos which should not be age-restricted.

FWIW the problem also appears to be pretty random -- personally I've never been asked to sign in to watch a YouTube embed on DU.

Second edit: If you are using a VPN, there's a chance that could be causing the problem... when you find a video that asks you to sign in, try disabling the VPN and reloading the page to see if it still asks you. (Whether or not you want to do this depends on how comfortable you are disabling the VPN.)

[Bev54]

19. I posted a YT video the other day and had one DU member have difficulty opening with the same

sign in message. They got back to me and said it was because they were using VPN.

[Nittersing]

14. This is being reported with some regularity

It hasn't effected me yet, but I've seen quite a few posts.

If you search "youtube video" on DU, you might find a solution in some of those replies.

edit to add: I see EarlG has posted with what he knows. Since it isn't effecting everyone, I wonder if it depends on what device you're using.

[Dennis Donovan]

15. Are you running thru a VPN? n/t

[orthoclad]

16. Yes, but

I don't do googletube, so I assumed they're just mining for PII to sell.

One reason I don't do videos. Especially with bold yellow clickbait text.

[deRien]

22. If I turn off VPN

the video works without having to sign in...

[orthoclad]

23. That's because Gaggle wants to harvest your info and sell it

vpns defeat that.

Giggle is evil. I don't do googletube. If the service is free, YOU are the product.

[deRien]

24. I only tried it

to see if that made the video show up which it did. I don't have a YouTube account... And I didn't watch the video...

[orthoclad]

26. I've noticed it, too,

on a few occasions where a video might actually provide info.

The medium itself, like tv, uses a LOT of bandwidth and viewing time to convey very little actual info. Very low signal-to-noise ratio. Text is information-rich and uses up very little time to read it. Sometimes an image conveys emotional impact that text can't deliver, but most videos are a huge waste of time and bandwidth.

[duncang]

17. I'm guessing you have a iPhone?

And using Safari. I had that problem on almost every yt video. Refreshing may or may not work. I’ve found sometimes when I reboot my phone it works. I also have google chrome. I can use it and it seems to work every time. I do like safari better. I found if I go over to chrome play a couple videos when I go back to safari the videos work. At least for awhile.

[question everything]

31. On my iPad Safari. Not sure about Firefox on my iMac. Will have to compare

[Autumn]

18. All the time recently. I don't click on them anymore.

[surfered]

20. Except for You Tube music videos, I won't click on a news video

It’s just a personal preference. Sometimes I’m in a public place, where the audio will disturb those nearby. Please just give me a transcript, the printed word, a hint of what it’s about….

[orthoclad]

32. I used to spend hours watching music vids

finding obscure songs I haven't heard in ages, frinstance. But now that Giggle owns it and commoditizes it I avoid the videos.

I notice a post upstream where the person says vids work in safari once viewed on a goggle product. That sounds like: once gaggle has harvested your personal data to sell, it unlocks the video.

My net hygiene efforts result in very little spam and phishing. DTD: Digitally Transmitted Disease. I now think of visiting commercial media sites like having unprotected sex, and vpn's like using condoms.

[bamagal62]

21. Yep. Almost every video.

I’m on Safari and I don’t plan on using another browser. I have stopped trying to see any of them. Not worth the effort.

[sakabatou]

25. Sometime's happens to me.

I just copy the URL, and go to YouTube.

[Bayard]

28. Nope

Never had that problem (crossing fingers.)

[question everything]

29. Yes, but not all the time. No problem with catbyte animals clips in the Lounge

[apcalc]

30. Sooooo frustrating. We need to sign in to You Tube?

I don’t like it a bit.