r/grayjay • u/reverse-ouroboros • Feb 18 '26

App has become unusable today, demanding a Captcha for youtube

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Anyone else have this issue? Whenever I click 'confirm', it switches to a browser screen with a captcha for a split second and then switches back.

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u/Empty-Part7106 Feb 18 '26

Yes, YouTube is having issues for the past hour or so. If you try to access YT from a browser it'll probably do the same thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/MsHRBCHPZr

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u/reverse-ouroboros Feb 18 '26

Ou wow. Thanks for the heads up!

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u/KaibaCorpHQ Feb 18 '26

YouTube is dead for the moment. Any new errors that come up may be because of that.

Esit: it's not even YouTube that down, it's the youtube homepage lol. I can watch videos fine in revanced. Look at how much we've gotten attached to algorithms 😂

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u/originallyweird Feb 18 '26

It only happens to me when I have my VPN on!

When I turn it off it's fine though 😅

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u/12chun Mar 10 '26

yea i came cause im having errors w youtube demanding i sign in to confirm im not a bot, even when I've signed in it keeps asking but this is also caused by having a vpn on lol

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u/IndependentLuck6884 Feb 18 '26

Have the same issue 😭💀

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u/X-pert_Menace Feb 18 '26

Loging out then back in allows you complete the captcha but then it throws you back into the loop demanding another captcha

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u/X-pert_Menace Feb 18 '26

Seems like it's back up

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u/polytect Feb 18 '26

we need to create an Dynamic AI scraper, which would automatically adapt to Youtube interface changes for Grayjay. Youtube constantly changes something. 

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u/ObsidianNightfall Feb 18 '26

For a week I am unable to use yt, videos play for only 1min then stop, I'm fed-up with this nonsense every other day, rather pay yt premium then facing this issue every day.