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Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction

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106 points ambigious7777 | 2 comments | 18 May 25 11:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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stwrzn ◴[18 May 25 12:28 UTC] No.44020865[source]▶
Youtube doesn't even want me to watch videos anymore!

Every video is just this now:

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1. loloquwowndueo ◴[18 May 25 12:45 UTC] No.44020983[source]▶
This seems to be ip-address-based. Change your ip if feasible, possibly using a vpn, and you can likely bypass that.

Or you could just do the healthy thing and walk away from YouTube. Plenty of better things to do with one’s time!

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2. stwrzn ◴[18 May 25 13:39 UTC] No.44021354[source]▶
It is IP based, and my whole range is banned. I welcome it though, as you said it stops the Youtube time-wasting.