Whenever someone complains about why their shared video link on YouTube ‘won’t work’.
It works, but people largely forgot that Google stupidly ruined that ability for everyone by making it mandatory that you be logged in to watch videos, so you’re not flagged as a bot. But, since you’re sharing a link to the video or embedding it, you can’t watch it anyways because the stupid prompt shows up, forcing you to go to the site itself.
When you embed YT on Lemmy, it does not work whether you are logged in or not.
I’m assuming that’s a VPN problem? They always work fine as embeds for me.
No VPN here. It “works” in that you can click it and it sends you to youtube’s site. I cannot watch on Lemmy.
Ah. Okay. I use a client that handles YT embeds so that’s why then. However, when I’m on a VPN, sometimes it puts me through an endless captcha loop.