Embedded YouTube Video Player Broken

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Something just broke with the embedded YouTube player on the Site. Attempting to play a video now brings up a “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message and no way to sign in or find out more.
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This is on my Gen 9 iPad with iPadOS 18.0 running Safari.
 
I was on a different forum and was able to play an Embedded YouTube video just fine, so it may be a timing issue, like you said.
 
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Well, today this problem popped up for me again, and I was able to make this go away by firing up the YouTube app on my iPad which I am signed into as me. The “prove you’re not a bot” message stopped.
 
Well, today this problem popped up for me again, and I was able to make this go away by firing up the YouTube app on my iPad which I am signed into as me. The “prove you’re not a bot” message stopped.
Actually I saw an article somewhere yesterday about it, its YouTube doing that for some embeded links.

I guess they would rather you watch things on their site where they get all the ad revenue.
 
I guess they would rather you watch things on their site where they get all the ad revenue.
But, if I can watch it here, there are no Ads. Why would I want Ads?

And, BTW, when you go to Share a YouTube video on your phone by copying the link, it will tag it with a unique identifier:
HTML:
https://youtu.be/dSHNutfUHSw?si=iIq8CnrF41Em6QpH
(The ?si= introduces a unique identifier that lets YouTube know you shared a video from a mobile YouTube App. So, remove it when you Paste the link to remain anonymous.)​

Also, FYI, if you share media via the XenForo Media icon in the tool bar,
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(this Media icon will be located in a different location depending on your SatelliteGuys navigation method)​

It also removes the ?si= data in addition to creating a [ MEDIA ] tag. This leaves off the YouTube hyperlink from beneath the video, too.
 
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