Tell HN: YouTube is punishing logged-out users

By penskymaterial · 2026-10-09 · 5 points · 0 comments

YouTube has implemented hair trigger "anti-bot" measures that I suspect strictly limit the number of session cookies issued over a sliding window. If you browse in Incognito Mode it does not take much casual browsing to exceed this limit. It accuses you of being a bot and demand…

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