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

[Jay Ashworth]

It seems to me that I have gotten that message maybe once or twice while I was at the college campus I work at, where, presumably, the entire campus is NATted out to ipv4.

On January 26, 2021 12:53:17 AM EST, "Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" <Brad.Chapman at nbcuni.com> wrote:
>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?
>
>
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