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

This happens regularly, somewhere between 2:00 and 4:00 AM UTC, sometimes a little later.

If this affects Invidious instances, it might explain why I have found Invidious less reliable in the last few weeks, since these happen to correspond to the times when I am most likely to try to watch something on Invidious when I am in the States. Thanks for the tip!

Lol, remember Twitter closing down right after Elon bought it because of bots?

I remember the time mostly for the great Nitter instance massacre, which happened to coincide with the API changes which extinguished Teddit. Gah, this was already almost three years ago… The web moves fast.