YouTube bot detection has been aggressively over-tightening. The fact that established tools like Freetube and yt-dlp get flagged alongside actual bots shows the detection is catching way too many false positives. This is what happens when you let a platform that profits from watch time also decide who gets to watch.
YouTube bot detection has been aggressively over-tightening. The fact that established tools like Freetube and yt-dlp get flagged alongside actual bots shows the detection is catching way too many false positives. This is what happens when you let a platform that profits from watch time also decide who gets to watch.