[Outages-discussion] YouTube rate limit messages ... on AT&T cellular?

[Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)]

In the last few weeks I have randomly received interstitial captcha’s when viewing YouTube videos while connected to AT&T cellular.  It happened as recently as this afternoon.  

I live in Los Angeles.  The appearances of these messages to a single device on a public network is odd, and I would never expect YouTube to throttle views coming from a major carrier unless there is some shenanigans happening behind the scenes.

My phone is not connected to a VPN client either.  This was straight to the Internet.

I tried attaching a screenshot earlier, but the mailing list has an attachment size limit of 256KB.  The message says:

> “Sorry for the interruption.  We have received a large volume of requests from your network.  To continue your YouTube experience, please fill out the form below:”
> 
> [   ] I am not a robot.

Can anyone from a major carrier or from Google comment on why this might be happening more frequently, or is it possible that it happens to certain subnets of devices from time to time?


—Sent from my iPhone