General Discussion • Re: YouTube Now Forcing Visitors To Sign In To View Videos

I have six other hard drives. Three of them are using MX Linux and three of them are using Debian. Those six hard drives can play YouTube videos in Pale Moon, Waterfox and Firefox even though I am not signed in and I do not have a YouTube account per say. But all of my "seven" hard drives for YouTube are set up the same way. It is just this seventh hard drive using MX Linux that is giving me this problem.

My guess is, someone at YouTube or worse, some "unintelligent AI bot" at YouTube is trying to determine what is a bot and what is not a bot and they have made a mistake. If this is a mistake and not some deliberate scheme to get people to sign in.

My next door neighbor has a Gmail account and so do I. He told me since Google owns YouTube, I should be able to play videos using the Google sign in. My neighbor tried using his Gmail account sign in and he got in to play videos. Well, I tried that and it refuses the sign in for me.