Video load error: “Failed to load / confirm you’re not a bot”

[xa4hf8]

When my device is connected through a shared public proxy (VPN), YouTube access is randomly restricted, but the blocking of specific items is inconsistent: some clips will work but may stop working if replayed, and items that do not play might begin to work several hours later. But the issue does not occur with the official Roku YouTube client, even when no YouTube account was configured on the device.

[iBicha]

Thanks for reporting - when we fetch video data, we don't perfectly mimic an official client, so there's probably a threshold between "a lot of traffic coming from the same ip" and "this payload is missing a few fields, or have some values that don't make sense" which would trigger this error message.
I'll keep an eye on this issue, but honestly without a solid method to reproduce it, it's going to be hard to find a fix.

[xa4hf8]

without a solid method to reproduce it, it's going to be hard to find a fix

I have conducted some additional research on this issue and found that it occurs frequently on ProtonVPN when a channel is bookmarked and recent uploads for the channel are played in sequence or repeated. The issue is usually reproducible once blocking begins. After some hours (or the next day), the block is often reset.

[iBicha]

Thanks for confirming. The only thing I can think of to possibly improve this, is to implement poToken (Point of origin token) somehow https://github.com/iv-org/youtube-trusted-session-generator. It might help, but usually public VPNs are always going to be subject to these blocks, because unusual amount of YouTube traffic is coming from the same IP address, which will be detected as bot traffic