This isnt new. Its been happening for years. There is a post about this on lemmy every few weeks. It just doesnt happen consistently, so people always think that they “discovered” this for the first time.

But this is even dumber than before, you can’t even login to bypass. What about people living in a country where youtube is blocked. I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?

What about people living in a country where youtube is blocked. I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?

Yyep.

If you’re using a VPN, you’re likely anonymized and not directly making YouTube any money. So they don’t care.

They said logging in doesn’t make it go away. Being logged in means they can already track you, so this is pretty ridiculous of them tbh.