When you first go to the domain www.youtube.com instead and afterwards visit the URL of the video you found, that is not considered to be suspicious. (It's not even related to redirects, you can copy and paste the URL from somewhere else.)
Contrary to your experience, I get more "are you human" delays, by directly entering in a new tab: https://www.youtube.com, than from redirects or c&p URLs on YT's site.
I get relatively few "are you human" notices, if re-directed from other site's links to YT. That part may vary some, but it's far fewer times than opening YT in new tabs, without FIRST clearing my cache AND getting a new identity. I've tried 5 - 10 new circuits, checking that the exit IPa changed. Once they deny access *the 1st time,* changing circuits is much less successful than clearing cache & a new identity. I just don't know why clearing the cache 1st is important, if YT can't read cache (sometimes cookies) from other sites. Maybe they know something we don't. Won't be the 1st time. A new identity *w/o clearing cache* works less often, so it's easier to do it first. The exit relay's country doesn't matter too much. They block lots of U.S. exits for me. I don't know if it means they've seen lots of spamming, scraping, DoS from the IPa's or what. What ever it means, apparently YT now thinks there's a LOT of it. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
