[tor-talk] Revisiting youtube blocking TBB, virtually all 1st attempts to load YT

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download YT videos using for e.g youtube-dl. These solves the headache 
of google shit.

joebtfsplk at gmx.com:
> Problems with TBB & YouTube were recently discussed on tor-talk.  Things
> have changed fairly quickly.
> 
> Something new has developed for me.  1st, I don't visit YT daily or even
> weekly, depending.
> Until maybe 10 days ago, the site (often, not always) presented a
> message about excessive traffic from the current IPa.
> 
> Before, for me, just getting a new circuit - maybe 1 to 3 times, made
> things right.
> 
> Suddenly, that no longer worked.  Even if I forced using only U.S. exits
> via torrc.
> It appears the country location of exit being used isn't YT's only issue.
> I started requesting new TBB identities & that worked on the 1st attempt
> (most times) for 1 or 2 weeks.
> 
> Then getting new identities started failing to load the site.  I've also
> recently seen a noticeable increase of other sites, large & small, that
> refuse to load in TBB.  Allowing 1st party cookies or 1st party scripts
> doesn't seem to matter for the majority of sites that won't load.
> 
> It's unclear if the exit relay's country was / is a factor - too little
> testing by me to be conclusive.
> But, I found that manually clearing TBB's cache in about:preferences,
> THEN restarting TBB worked a high percentage of attempts.  Just getting
> new identities was no longer enough; at least forcing new identities 6+
> times, on a number of days.
> 
> It could be there are SO many Tor exits, in many countries with lots of
> users doing things that YT considers abuse.  If that theory is correct,
> YT's "issue" with TBB changed very suddenly - for me.
> 
> It makes me wonder if other recent changes in TBB, Tor or NoScript,
> etc., is a main factor.
>  From a simple probability stance, it's unlikely that for a few yrs, my
> TBB was assigned only exits that YT considered good.  Then quite
> suddenly, YT has a problem with dozens of exits in dozens of countries,
> including U.S.
> 
> YT / Google could also have changed their policy - again - how they were
> going to treat TBB or changed their definition of "abuse," so now there
> are many more sites meeting their criteria of abusive. I also wonder if
> Mozilla Fx changes on things like resisting fingerprinting are major
> factors in more sites blocking TBB.
> 
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