Youtube: Sign in to confirm you are not a bot

[njreynolds]

Hi

Staff and students have used Youtube for year with no account (not logged in).

We do have a GPO to show not show restricted videos (its not this, as I have tried without).

 

Today, all PCs are saying "Sign in to confirm you are not a bot"

 

This is happening on all browsers.

 

We cannot do this, as students and staff do not have an account.

Even if we made accounts, they wouldn't not remember them

 

Not sure if its something to do with my IP Address

or

its just a bug with Google

 

Has anyone else had this issue today OR in the past ?

Is there anything I can do ?

 

Thanks

Edited November 10, 2025 by njreynolds

[mavhc]

Had it yesterday at home using firefox

 

See also 

 

[Julian]

The school regularly has a issue, with proving we are not bots to Cloudflare. I think this is because we are NATed, and all the many requests come from one ip address, and they are expecting only one person, on one ip address, so get confused with the request from several hundred people.